Like Water: A Participatory Walk with Artist A. Laurie Palmer and Special Guests

Inspired by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Bruce Lee, and the Hong Kong protestors, join artist A. Laurie Palmer and  in collaboration with Cid Pearlman and Ilia Dolgov to practice moving together as a body of water, walking west from the IAS along Delaware Avenue to the ocean. On the way we will imagine and explore how this particular stretch of land has been inhabited, stewarded, enclosed, owned, and used and how these histories shape contemporary borders between public and private space.

From thousands of years of stewardship by the Awaswas speaking Uypi people, through seizure by missionaries for pasturage, division into private ranchos for Spanish settlers and then parcelled into lots for European/American settlers, to more recent developments including the creation of natural reserves, the land carries the effects of these experiences and relationships into the present.

How might a collective experiment in moving “like water” help us to discover surprising ways to relate with a place, a social and environmental context, and a particular historical moment?

part 1. 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Panetta Street to Natural Bridges St

part 2. 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Natural Bridges to the Homeless Garden Project

part 3. 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Homeless Garden Project to Younger Lagoon

This walk will be fully accessible up until the overlook of the Lagoon, at which point a technically accessible, but possibly slippery, trail (depending on the weather) meanders down hill. Participants are welcome to stay at the overlook, or go down to the water’s level in the company of a guide.