Ghost Waters Walking Tour
, April 2024
Installation/Walking Tour Performance by Straw Pipes
Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA) Gallery
Rhapsody Tentacular Exhibition, curated by Sisi ChenDocumented by Sisi Chen and audience
Description:
For the Ghost Waters Walking Tour, Straw Pipes invited the audience in a remembrance of the neighborhood “ghost waters,” focusing primarily on Newtown Creek’s lost headwaters - the natural water sources now supplanted by multiple CSO (Combined Sewer Overflow) offshoots. Traveling water-buckets-in-tow, we collected water from the creek and from the storm drains that now conceal what’s left of these natural tributaries. As with the other performances in this series, we brought the water to be filtered through our installation in TSA gallery.