Persona
I'm about this life.
I am a multidisciplinary artist, racial-justice worker, and educator based in Durham, NC, on Saponi Nation land.
Don’t be shy.
My name is Lauren Neefe.
I practice at the intersection of sound design, writing, documentary, and improvisation. I hold a PhD in English literature and an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts.
My multidisciplinary practice has a name: “Eunoisha.” It shoves a phoneme of grit into Aristotelian “good will” (eunoia) and the sheerest virtuosity (Christian Bök’s book-length poem Eunoia).
I collaborate with actors, musicians, and dancers, weaving field recordings and interviews into live performance, such as “F(L)IGHT” (7 Stages Theatre) and "Citizen Greeting | Rite of Return" (Whittier Mill Village Park). I am an award-winning educator and have taught courses on sound studies, poetry, and architecture at distinguished universities and in Georgia state prisons.
My first true love is NYC. It is where I learned to navigate the chaos. The South has made me whole: onetime yogi, sometime cyclist, art lover, pitty whisperer, wannabe hoofer, OK cook, helpless gardener, neighbor, fighter, sister, friend.
