the waters we carry is a framework to explore through research and artistic gesture the question, how do we hold an understanding of the many ways we all interact with water in our daily lives - from the cellular to the global?
Framed as a series of experiments - the waters we carry is a multimodal documentation of attempts to communicate with a more-than-human speculative sentience aka the earth’s ocean. These attempts are translated through multiple modes using image, video, morse code, performance score, climate data, and responsive coding to try to understand the interdependence and synchronicity of bodies (human, global) as fragile yet resilient systems.
Drawing from research in (among others) deep ecologies, queer studies, climate science, cultural anthropology, artistic practice as research methodology.
ocean is a speculative sentience — a water being that responds to human utterance through fragments of poetic language, climate science, and ecological knowledge about water.
Creative technology by Sean Desiree.
On view at MOSAIC, 49 Main St. North Adams, MA July 4 - August 2, 2026
interested in bringing the waters we carry to your community? contact Michelle