Shift Again with the Network Time Small Human Chorus

Shift Again is a video-performance offering of texts, meditations, songs, dances, and historical remembrances from the era of I.N.T. (In Network Time). In the future world of INT humans live as fully-connected participants in Earth’s multispecies ecosystem, according to principles in the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa as modeled by octopuses, made possible by bacterial communication networks.

Shift Again is an invitation to collectively envision, choose, and move toward this new orientation, recognizing that we make what we breathe and that what we breathe makes us.

Join us for an atmospheric dual-channel video layering of original and archival footage, text in English and Spanish, and a soundscore including live singing by the Network Time Small Human Chorus, led by artist Sara Smith. In this performance-screening, selections from the “Songs of Conocimiento” songbook are sung by all in attendance to accompany the projected video.

This event is in conjunction with the Red Spruce Salt Marsh Station instance of INT hosted by SPACE in early 2026, made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts.

Sara Smith creates speculative-documentary performances and other works that explore interconnection and the poetics and politics of embodied and archival research. Their working process is rooted in physical practices of micro-attention and relational transformation. Sara’s artworks have been seen and heard in theaters, museums, studios, public parks, recreation center basements, and cloud-based platforms.

Smith is a transdisciplinary choreographer and librarian. They have been a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship award in Choreography, and of support from The LEF Foundation, Maine Arts Commission, NEFA, the Puffin Foundation, and residency fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Hewnoaks, and The American Antiquarian Society. From 2010-2017, Sara edited KINEBAGO, a forum for writing by and about New England dance makers and movement researchers.

Shift Again is made possible with a New England Foundation for the Arts New England States Touring (NEST) grant.