The
Sapphic
Gospel
A cinematic, time-bending testament
Record.
Presence.
The Sapphic Gospel is an interdisciplinary project operating across performance, archival practice, and narrative research.
The work positions lived experience as primary material, translating language and memory into film, sound, rhythm, and spatial environments.
It functions as both artistic production and research framework, examining how narrative organizes perception, embodiment, and collective record.
Through contributions from individuals, artists, and institutions, the project develops an evolving archive that informs performance, installation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
The Sapphic Gospel was developed in part during an artist residency at The Church in Sag Harbor, supporting the evolution of this work across performance, archival research, and live systems.
The Church, Sag Harbor, New YorkAcross centuries, the voices of queer women moved under conditions of silence shaped by law, society, and historical record.
We carry this forward.
The Sapphic Gospel gathers voices across generations, including elder women, young adults, and contemporary artists, into a living archive where past and present converge.
This work unfolds through film, sound, rhythm, and embodied performance.
A collective act of remembering and reclaiming.
Each entry functions as narrative
and registers as pattern.The Sapphic Gospel operates as a relational archive.
Language carries lived experience into a system of registration, accumulation, and translation.
Narrative functions as active material shaping perception, embodiment, and expression.
Submitted entries integrate into performance, sound, visual environments, and research systems.
A Call for Presence
This project calls for voices, presence, and material.
Queer Women (50–80+)
- Interview Participants Women sharing lived experience in voice, writing, video, or anonymous form
- Censorship & Resistance Participants with lived experience of erasure and resistance
- Archivists of Self Individuals holding letters, photographs, recordings, or personal archives
Artists & Creators
- Visual & Movement Visual artists, filmmakers, poets, dancers
- Sound & Rhythm Musicians, composers, drummers
- Multimedia Installation creators engaging memory and embodiment
Institutions & Partners
- Cultural Spaces Residencies, museums, and curators
- The Keepers Archivists, researchers, and historians
- Collaborators Producers, funders, and technical partners
I. The Unspoken
Erasure and silence. Fragmented memory. Felt experience outside recorded systems.II. The Cost
Censorship and survival.To touch her hand was to risk your name.
To speak her name was to risk your life. conditions of existence
Interlude
The Breath Between
A threshold between silence and expressionIII. The Pulse
Love and defiance. Memory transmits through rhythm, movement, and presence.IV. The Gospel
Reclamation and legacy. A collective archive where stories move into permanence.
This interface receives lived experience
as language input.
Many names moved outside record.
Many voices moved outside documentation.
Queer women across time and culture persist in presence, memory, and relational experience.
This work builds a space where that presence
registers fully, visibly, and permanently.
Entries contribute to an expanding archive that informs:
Write The Sapphic Gospel
together.
Ensure continuity through record and transmission.