Inside the Breath (In Network Time)

Inside the Breath (2017-present) is an 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.

WE DO THE MOLECULAR DANCE OF SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM / HACEMOS LA DANZA MOLECULAR DEL ACTIVISMO ESPIRITUAL

I am interested in how we as humans might work deliberately on embodied understanding and storytelling across species and systems. Bacteria have some of the oldest stories, so much of my and my collaborators’ time has been spent trying to “listen” to those transmissions in various sensory ways.

Created with and performed by 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.

Listen & watch: One day we had the experience of looking back at ourselves

Listen & watch: Interknowing (Memory) 

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

Host-bacteria relationships

Octopuses

Solidarity