Lisa dives deep with Nancy discussing their friendship and relationships with dreaming since meeting 20 years ago at IONE's Annual Dream Festival. Lisa and Nancy talk motherhood, collaborative projects and creative sparks in dream time. Nancy describes and performs their creative dream practice of somniloquies. Somniloquy from Latin meaning somnus to sleep + loqui to speak.
Nancy O. Graham’s creative practices range from performance in theatre and film to writing and other forms of play with text to image making. Their somniloquies—poems based on sleeptalk—have been published in various online journals and in the books Listening in Dreams: A Compendium of Sound Dreams, Meditations and Rituals for Deep Dreamers by Ione and InFiltration: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley, edited by Anne Gorrick and Sam Truitt. Her short story based on a dream, I Shefam Im, an annotated story, appeared in The Café Irreal. They act in theatre and film under the name Noa Graham. Recent theatre work has included Kairos Looney’s House of Telescopes (Off Broadway, spring 2024), Paula Vogel’s Indecent at Playhouse on Park in Hartford, CT (winner of Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Ensemble, 2023). Recent film work: The short film Elegy for a Glacier (2023), which recently screened at Barnard College’s Athena Film Festival, is streaming on AMC Plus here as part of a collection called Athena Rising Stars.
LINKS:
The Radio Boredcast is a 744-hour-long radio show curated by artist Vicki Bennett (also known as People Like Us) that was the audio component of London’s AV Festival 2012. The Radio Boredcast is now archived at WFMU, and you can listen to recorded somniloquies by searching on Graham in the page at the link.
Poems for Texts for Nothing, a collaboration between Nancy Graham and Michael Ruby in response to Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing, published by Dusie in 2019, is available for download here.
MONOPRINTS: SOME SOMNILOQUY ILLUSTRATIONS
Created by Nancy O. Graham. All Rights Reserved.
Then the believer is healthy but the doubter is mad.
The fox shared a different kind of perception when they were sleeping.
She was treating her Qi.
They rolled a snowball and cheap is in
and they’re not going back, hello!
