1. WHITNALL UTILITY CORRIDOR

2. Had this tunnel been built it would be the
longest highway tunnel in California, and
even today would rank as the third longest
highway tunnel in the USA!

3. Despite the existence of the power lines,
the Whitnall Parkway/Freeway continued to
appear on proposed freeway maps well
into the 1960's.

4. The current Whitnall Highway is an unusual
configuration of wide residential streets,
sometimes with a broad center strip
converted into a park-like setting.

5. In other places Whitnall Highway disappears
into undeveloped lots only to reappear a
quarter mile away for non-residential uses,
most often as a park or nursery.

6. In 1990, the EPA recommended that low-
frequency EMF's be considered a class B
carcinogen, like radon (a radioactive gas).

7. Some investigators believe that disturbances in
the local EMF field are a direct indication of
ghost activity.

8. NEVER WAS

9. The Welcome Event
The seven day festival uses the length of the Whitnall Utility Corridor to facilitate site
specific performances. Each of these performances will occur during a specific time in the
evening and in succession move the audience across the corridor.
The first event will first unite the all areas of the corridor by remarking the original
footprint. The next 6 days will occur in selected spaces for their physical characteristics:
green nursery, urban parks with limited activity, parking for car inventory, and empty lots
with minimal or no vegetation. Each of these events will be performances that will use
these aspects of open space and EMF to reveal unexpected uses.

10. How does this expose an in-between space?
The series of events exposes its historical background, celebrates hidden dimensions
of urban planning and electrical magnetic fields, and questions the future potentials for
the space.

11. What is the dialogue?
Public utilities and the spaces they occupy are not intended primarily for public recreation
or as even a common space for communities to share. These are support spaces for the
city’s infrastructure, the electrical skeleton turned inside out.
The Whitnall Corridor cannot be masked- it is on constant display in X,Y, and Z. The air
between the towers, their wires and the ground is the Z-axis leftovers. You can walk or
travel between these areas, but find yourself limited due unexpected consequences
(metallic balloons hitting wires, narrow greenspaces, and roadways that dissect and
surround nearly every area of the corridor).
Since they were never intended to be public commons, but end up being that state in
some cases, are they other land uses beside open space?

12. How do you capture the dialog?
The seven day process will be documented in film and video through aerial photography
and audience submitted video.

13. BLOSSOM

14. STEP ONE
Blossoms are packed in nets that will be placed in the
negative spaces provided by the towers

15. STEP TWO
In series, the flower blossoms are released from the towers
from the North to the South.

16. STEP THREE
Remarking the original footprint of the proposed highway
and connecting the disparate islands together, the blossoms
unify the communities surrounding the corridor.

17. HERD

18. STEP ONE
Clusters of prism structures that house the herd will be placed in
the negative spaces provided by the towers

19. STEP TWO
A herd of metal sculptures emerge from the towers,
becoming performance spaces for dancers to interact with.

20. STEP THREE
Starting from two locations, the herd migrates in both
directions each subsequent night to be accessible to the
communities surrounding the corridor.

22. CLOUD

23. STEP ONE
Deflated structures that house lights activated by the area
electromagnetic fields will be placed in the open field provided by
the towers.

24. STEP TWO
A parade of balloons held by neighbors fills the park-

25. STEP THREE
The parade of blimps become an Electro Magical Field of lights
floating below the power lines in a state of constant anxiety.

26. THANK YOU !!!