Flow_ish
Exploring the LA river through experimental practice
The merging of guerrilla art tactics with movement, sound, and observation is a deeply layered way to explore displacement, environmental neglect, and ephemeral presence. What you’re describing is not just documentation but intervention, and it’s both poetic and political.
This many yeared project began as guerrilla research—a commitment to inhabiting, documenting, and responding to the overlooked environments of the LA River. Over several years, we walked, biked, and performed within its spaces, transforming environmental observation into multisensory art.
Using charcoal and white primer on the cement banks, we engaged in a durational drawing process: drawn, erased, redrawn. Each gesture echoed the river’s rhythms—and the erasures and obstructions caused by displacement, pollution, and neglect. The site became a temporary studio, stage, and archive.
We integrated guerilla portraits of the homeless on pilons and under roads. Drewing, danced, collected sound, and performed site-specific interventions, up and down the Los Angeles River. Opera in the water tunnels bledd with the collected stories and urban sounds. QR codes pasted along the river paths linked the physical site to audio recordings—layering space with memory, movement, and trace.
Collaborator with Marco Schindelmann.