Gowanus Canal

Who’s Responsible and Who’s Left Behind? Questions for Climate Week...

Who’s Responsible and Who’s Left Behind?  Questions for Climate Week...

I live 4 blocks from the Gowanus Canal, New York City’s first designated superfund site and one of the most polluted waterways in the United States. It’s also slated for the largest rezoning in New York City in 20 years. Yet it remains a toxic area. Gowanus can serve as a microcosm of larger development issues and begs some important questions.

Performance and Place: Thinking forward, Looking back

Performance and Place: Thinking forward, Looking back

Since 2010 I’ve been developing works around particular geographic areas. In 2010, Your Planet brought performers, participants and audiences to Coney Island and Manhattan Beach to explore the shifting environment of sand and tides and witness a location in which debris washes ashore. This began my obsession with plastic pollution and a practice of integrating community actions into each project. It also began an investigation into water and shorelines…