Panspermia

Contributors | Nancy Valladares, Rae Yuping Hsu

Panspermia is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies survival in space exploration via the lens of symbiosis. The narrative is inspired by biologist Lynn Margulis' endosymbiotic theory of species evolution through a process which Donna Haraway describes as “critters eating critters and getting indigestion.” The flyer will wear a bio-designed flight suit to collide with a bacteria cellulose sac in microgravity and proceed to "become one" by inhabiting the bacteria cellulose.

Panspermia was performed during a Zero-G parabolic flight in May 2021.