STORIES IN RESERVE
It has often been said that tourism is the modern realization
of a human urge to be elsewhere. But how does this urge mutate when the
elsewhere becomes the right here, or vice versa? The more closely we look
at the right here, the more we might see the elsewhere within it.
This isn’t
an appeal to that popular artistic employment of seeing things anew—finding
the strange in the everyday. We mean this quite literally.
Places may be
distinct spatial categories in our minds, but they are far from materially
exclusive—their boundaries form overlapping volumes that share varying
amounts of matter and history.
Below are a collection of our tours available in various digital formats.
Dentimundo : Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga
This walking tour of Tijuana finds one example
of transnational commerce in a rather unexpected place–a dentist’s
chair. This 20 min. audio track features narration by Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga and
interviews with dentists from the Mexican border towns of El Progresso, Ojinaga,
Juarez, Nogales, Mexicali and Tijuana. The track ends
with a song written by Ricardo with music composed by Alejandro Espino Aldana
and performed by Alejandro Espino Aldana, Benjamin Rivera Cruz, Mary-Ann
Murnane & Giovanni Jesus Borquez Carvajal.
Format: Audio - Mode: Walking - Language: English/Spanish
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America Ponds : Sarah
Kanouse
Despite the sparkling clarity of Devil’s Kitchen
Lake, the seasonal influx of wintering geese, and the hushed serenity of
its wilderness area, this Southern Illinois National Wildlife Refuge is anything
but unspoiled nature. The Refuge is the
result of a half-century of economic development efforts directed at this
sparsely populated, rural part of the state. Its three lakes were designed
and built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, and the Refuge
itself was established in 1947 on the site of a shuttered US Army munitions
plant. Since the 1980s, it has been on the Environmental Protection
Agency’s
National Priorities List—better
known as Superfund—which outlines and monitors a clean-up process for
the most severely contaminated sites in the United States.
Rather than concealing the Refuge ’s resolutely
cultural and political existence, this tour highlights it.
Format: Audio - Mode: Driving - Language: English
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Siting Expositions: Vancouver : Ryan
Griffis, Lize Mogel & Sarah
Ross
A walking tour of Vancouver’s False Creek.
Vancouver has a unique history as a city that has hosted
both a World’s Fair—Expo86–and a Winter Olympics in 2010.
These events have undeniably transformed the land around False Creek, an
urban waterway that borders Downtown Vancouver. While False Creek has been
shaped by urban settlement for over a century, the mega-events of 1986 and
2010 have left an economic and political legacy that will be seen and felt
well into the future.
Featuring music & sounds by: Mark
Cooley, The And Group
Format: Audio - Mode: Walking - Language: English
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