As part of Sibling Rivers, my international collaboration with Sam Fox (Perth, Australia) and Terrance Houle (Calgary, Alberta), I have been spending a lot of time researching and tracing the path of La Zanja Madre, the original aqueduct around which the Puebla de Los Angeles was founded in the 18th century.
As a resource for collaborators on the Zanja project (which will be presented in Los Angeles as Tracing Mother Ditch), I set up La Zanja Madre Performances, a repository for images, inspiration, and research links.
Tracing Mother Ditch, a 90 minute participatory tour/pilgrimmage/peregrinación along the path of the long buried ditch from the Broadway bridge, through Chinatown, and ending at Olvera Street and Union Station, is expected to premiere later this summer. Stay tuned for more information, and in the meantime, check out my Tumblr:
