Crooked River in First and Third Persons

2008

with SPURSE

A 48-hour way-finding-via-sound experiment that re-engages the multiple legacies of the Cuyahoga River — its industrial fires, marine life losses, engineers’ ambitions, immigrant dreams, serpentine navigations — with its contemporary forms of agency.

The river’s complex intertwined realities as an industrial, cultural, and natural waterway are re-inscribed as a sonic way-finding system through the city grid of downtown Cleveland. When installed in Cleveland, participants would navigate the streets of downtown Cleveland with FM radios, moving from location to location.