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
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
