Inside the Breath (In Network Time)

(2017-present/current)

exhibition installation images, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton MA (2025)

Inside the Breath is an ecotopian exploration of the biological properties of interconnection, and a long project set in I.N.T., the calendar era of our interspecies planetary future. The world of INT is rooted in the writings and archives of the queer Chicana writer and activist Gloria Anzaldúa as modeled by octopuses, made possible by bacterial communication networks. The increased multisensory and communicative faculties humans have in INT enable greater organizing with and accountability to all planetary creatures and systems. We are the climate.

Created with many collaborators, including Meredith Bove, Kathy Couch, Barbie Diewald, María José Giménez, Karinne Keithley Syers, and the singers of the Network Time Small Human Chorus. Project research was made possible by the archivists who maintain and ensure access to Gloria Anzldúa’s archives at the Benson Latin American Collections at the University of Texas Libraries and at UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives.

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WE DO THE MOLECULAR DANCE OF SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM

HACEMOS LA DANZA MOLECULAR DEL ACTIVISMO ESPIRITUAL

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Read: Excerpts from Our Texts

Listen & watch: Future Oral Histories: bedtime story (excerpt, Shift Again)

Listen & watch: Interknowing (Memory) (excerpt, Shift Again)

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BRING US A LOWER LOVE

BRING US A LOWER LOVE (support)

BRING US A LOWER LOVE (support)

Subjects:

Anzaldúa, Gloria -- Philosophy

Borderlands -- Environmental aspects

Borderlands -- Political aspects

Cooperative societies

Distributed cognition

Geobiology

Host-bacteria relationships

Host-bacteria relationships

Octopuses

Solidarity

SARA SMITH . choreography and other projects

SARA SMITH . choreography and other projects