Latent Spaces: Embodied Geographies

TXST Galleries Presents Latent Spaces: Embodied Geographies, an Immersive Screendance Installation by Ana Baer Carrillo

Exhibition features the first public presentation of (Un)Common Ground, a new seven-screeninstallation created with WECreate Productions

SAN MARCOS, TX, August 5, 2026

TXST Galleries at Texas State University presents Latent Spaces: Embodied Geographies – The Collaborative Screendance of Ana Baer Carrillo, on view August 19 through November 7, 2026. An opening reception will be held Friday, August 21, from 6 to 8 p.m., with a site-responsive dance performance beginning at 6:15 p.m.

Video-choreographer Ana Baer Carrillo creates site-responsive screendance that explores relationships among body, landscape, memory, and place. Bringing together choreography, digital video, and sound, Latent Spaces: Embodied Geographies transforms TXST Galleries into an immersive audiovisual environment spanning eleven synchronized projections across two galleries.

The exhibition features works developed through Baer Carrillo’s two principal collaborative practices: AlebrijeCollective, founded with choreographer and scholar Dr. Rocio Luna, and WECreate Productions, the transcontinental screendance collective founded with choreographer, performer, and scholar Dr.

Heike Salzer. Choreographer, performer, and educator Michelle Nance joined WECreate Productions in 2026.

Gallery 1 presents Sympoiesis and KIN, two three-channel screendance works created through Alebrije Collective. Recorded in Michoacán, Mexico, the works examine relationships among bodies, damaged environments, material transformation, and ecological interdependence. Sympoiesis was created at Lago de Cuitzeo, historically Mexico’ssecond-largest lake, whose ecosystem has been endangered by drought, changing land use, urban development, and environmental degradation. KIN was recorded at the Sitio de Disposición Final and nearby recycling facilities in Morelia, situating choreographed bodies within systems of waste, consumption, and environmental change.

Gallery 2 premieres (Un)Common Ground, Baer Carrillo’s newest work, in its first public presentation as a seven-screen digital video installation. Created through WECreate Productions and recorded in Austin, Belgrade, andMexico City, the project explores how bodies, communities, and urban environments shape one another through movement, participation, and encounter in public space. Presented simultaneously across seven synchronized projections, the three cities enter into dialogue through fragments of choreography, architecture, social life, andcollective memory.

Throughout the exhibition, Baer Carrillo treats ecological and urban landscapes as active choreographic partners rather than passive settings. Her collaborators respond to the histories, materials, rhythms, and environmental conditions of each location through site-responsive movement and improvisation.

Across the two galleries, the works address ecology, itinerancy, political embodiment, cultural memory, and the shiftingrelationships among people and place.

The installation’s immersive soundscapes were developed in collaboration with composer and musician Richard D. Hall, who combines ambient location recordings captured by Baer Carrillo with original musical compositions to create audiovisual environments synchronized across the exhibition’s multiple projections.

Salzer describes WECreate Productions’ collaborative process as a “Wanderlust method”—an attentive approach to moving through unfamiliar environments in which choreography develops through encounters with place rather than through predetermined movement. This process allows each site’s atmosphere, architecture, histories, and socialconditions to inform the resulting work.

Baer Carrillo is Professor of Dance at Texas State University and a founding member of the university’s Merge DanceCompany. Since 2004, she has served as Artistic Co-Director of the international Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema in Boulder, Colorado. Her work has been commissioned by the John Cage Foundation; Stadttheater Gießen and Tanzcompagnie Gießen in Germany; Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and Contra-Danza México A.C. in Mexico; Performance Inventions in France; and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Her collaborative screendance works, performances, and installations have been presented internationally throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.

Exhibition Information

Latent Spaces: Embodied Geographies – The Collaborative Screendance of Ana Baer Carrillo

August 19–November 7, 2026

Opening Reception

Friday, August 21, 6–8 p.m.

Site-responsive performance at 6:15 p.m.

Location

TXST Galleries

School of Art and Design Texas State University

The exhibition and all associated public programs are free and open to the public.

Public Programs

The opening reception Friday, August 21 will feature live music by Richard D. Hall, Professor of Instruction in theSchool of Music at Texas State University.