INVISIBLE-5 PRESS INFORMATION


ABOUT THE PROJECT

Invisible-5 is a self-guided audio tour along the I-5, between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It uses the format of a museum audio tour to guide the listener along the highway landscape, mixing elements of critical tourism, sonic experiment, audio documentary, and investigative journalism.

Invisible-5 tells the stories of diverse community members who are tied to another through the geography of the I-5 corridor and through their shared struggle for environmental justice along the route of California's major North-South highway. The tour includes interviews, archival sound, recorded music, and field recordings to investigate the invisible toxic landscape of the I-5 corridor.

Invisible-5 was produced in 2006.


ABOUT THE COLLABORATION

Invisible-5 is a collaboration between three artists and two 501c3 organizations. The collaborators on Invisible-5 are lead artists Amy Balkin and Kim Stringfellow, audio lead Tim Halbur, and organizations Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice, and Pond: art, activism, and ideas.


SAMPLE AUDIO STOP

Bayview Hunters Point / San Francisco [MP3]



EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

Invisible-5 has been included in exhibitions including The city is a burning, blazing bonfire at Cubitt Gallery, Green Platform at Strozzina Center for Contemporary Culture, Italy, An Atlas of Radical Cartography, JUST SPACE(S), and Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments at Casa de Tunel, Tijuana.

Invisible-5 has been discussed in Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics by Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten J Swenson, and in Infrastructural Toursim by Sharon Mattern for Places Journal.


PRESS IMAGES

For press images, see the list below. For high-resolution copies email info@invisible5.org




EARLIMART
Teresa de Anda's daughter and a friend stand in the field directly across from her home in Earlimart, CA
Photo: Kim Stringfellow



TACO TRUCK - BUTTONWILLOW
Halliburton oil field workers take lunch at a taco truck just off the I-5 in Buttonwillow, while Tim Halbur records an interview.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow



CLEAN HARBORS DUMP - BUTTONWILLOW
Toxic waste dump just west of Buttonwillow. Truck traffic carrying toxic waste has historically used the road through Buttonwillow as a major route from I-5 to the dump.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow



GRAPEVINE
Diesel trucks ply the I-5 in the Grapevine, just south of Lebec, CA
Photo: Kim Stringfellow



BOYLE HEIGHTS, EAST LOS ANGELES
The Gutierrezes at home in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles.
Photo: Kim Stringfellow


LISTEN TO INVISIBLE-5
Stops: North >> South

Bayview Hunters Point / SF
West Oakland
Livermore
Westley
Crows Landing
Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge
Interstate 5
California Aqueduct
Tule Fog
Fresno-Coalinga Rd.
Tulare Dry Lake
Kettleman City
Alpaugh
Earlimart
Buttonwillow
Kern Water Bank
Mega-Dairies
Elk Hills
Frazier Park
Pacoima
Burbank
Los Angeles River
Boyle Heights - East LA
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DOWNLOAD INVISIBLE-5

>> SOUTHBOUND
CD1 Bayview Hunters Point-SF to Kettleman City [67.2MB ZIP/MP3]
CD2 Alpaugh to Boyle Heights-East LA [66.3MB ZIP/MP3]

>> NORTHBOUND
CD1 Boyle Heights-East LA to Alpaugh [66.3MB ZIP/MP3]
CD2 Kettleman City to Bayview Hunters Point - SF [67.2MB ZIP/MP3]

Download either SOUTHBOUND or NORTHBOUND to get all the audio files.

Audio Download Help
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DOWNLOAD DIRECTIONS

LANDSAT maps, directions,
and all stop information from the website to accompany the audio on your drive.

MAPS + DIRECTIONS
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MAPS + DIRECTIONS
Hi-Res [50MB]

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