Water Shed

   
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Water Shed 2014

is a series of performances that lead viewers to water thru the physical properties within the city of San Francisco that both comprise and compromise the watershed. Watershed is composed of: Creek Walks (Lead to Water) and Water Shed (On the Water).

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Water Shed
   
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Water Shed 2014

Reclaimed Water Barrels, Wood, metal, rubber, San Francisco doors, tarps, and rope.
69" x 95" x 120"

     
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A floating shed on the water where each Creek meets the Bay, that will place viewers directly on the water to reconsider their position to the city and land. Water Shed also functions as a bar, sleeping quarters, and fishing station for the Crew. Water Shed breaks down to fit in a truck.

     
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Islais Creek Water Shed 2014

     
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Mission Creek Water Shed 2014

     
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Yosemite Creek Water Shed 2014

June 27 & 28, 2014

     
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$$ aka the Creeker 2014

A refurbished 12’ Sea King fishing human powered boat to ferry from Land to the Water Shed. Also the Water Shed Crew’s fishing boat. aluminum, birch-ply, rope

     
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Islais Creek Water Shed Camp & Row 2014

Islais Creek Exploratory Row and overnight Water Shed camp May 31 - June 1, 2014.

     
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Yosemite Creek Water Shed Camp & Row 2014

Yosemite Creek Exploratory Row and overnight Water Shed camp June 27 - 28, 2014.

     
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Creek Rope 2014

spliced rope - 1 City Block in length 275’
Islais Creek - Aqua,
Mission Creek - Orange,
Yosemite Creek - white blue

     
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Cones 2014

rubber, barnacles, mussel and clam shells
3 traffic cones pulled out of Islais Creek one for each creek walk rope

     

CREEK WALKS

   
 
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Islais Creek 4 Man Walk
San Francisco May 10, 2014

Creek Walks (Lead to Water): 1 City Block Length of Rope carried along and over both the existing and hidden creek paths of San Francisco from Spring to Bay following the path of least resistance. The Watershed Crew wearing orange Life vests walk each creek before the group walk. Islais Creek Walk (5 miles)

     
 
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Islais Creek Walk
San Francisco June 1, 2014

5 mile Islais Creek walk from Glen Park Canyon to Islais Creek Channel with a city block length of rope.

   
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Mission Creek 5 Man Walk
San Francisco June 7, 2014


Watershed Crew preliminary 4 mile Mission Creek walk from 18th and Market St. to Mission Bay with a city block length of rope.

     
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Mission Creek Walk
San Francisco June 21, 2014


4 mile Mission Creek walk from 18th and Market St. to Mission Bay with a city block length of rope.

     
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Yosemite Creek 5 Man Walk
San Francisco June 14, 2014


Yosemite Creek Walk (2.8 miles) from McLaren Park to Candlestick Point (Yosemite Slough) with a city block length of rope

     
 
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Yosemite Creek Walk
San Francisco June 28, 2014


Yosemite Creek Walk (2.8 miles) from McLaren Park to Candlestick Point (Yosemite Slough) with a city block length of rope

     

CREEK WALK MEALS

   
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Islais Creek Walk Meal
San Francisco June 1, 2014

The Islais Creek Meal vegetables were harvested along the walk from Alemany Farm and was served with Sardines (Monterey Fish Market), and Speakeasy Bears and Ales. Speakeasy Brewery is located on the edge of the old coastline of Islais Creek Mouth and Sardines can be caught here and were once canned on Islais Creek.

     
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Mission Creek Walk Meal
San Francisco June 21, 2014

The Mission Creek Meal was harvested along the walk with a donation of bread Tartine Bakery and La Mission Market on 17th and Mission Streets. Donations by Monterey Fish Market.

     
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San Francisco June 28, 2014

The Yosemite Creek Meal was harvested along the walk with food from discounted coffee from Trouble Coffee, Molanari and Sons Salame and Sausages, and food from La Loma Produce and Panaderia Bakery on San Bruno Ave and Bacon St.
 
Trailers & Press
   
 
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Two Walks: Re-enacting Rivers and Exploding Farms
By Jason Graves Open Humanities Press: Feedback August 22, 2014


The art of walking is often a melancholy one. Its slowness breeds languid reveries, intense brooding, and earthbound ponderings that can tend toward a state of paralysis. However, art walks are typically anything but lethargic. Two (un)related walks conveniently bookended my summer: a river walk and a campus walk. Both probed the relation between memory and landscape: one, on the summer solstice, retraced the course of San Francisco’s undergrounded Mission Creek from source to sea, while another meandered around the legendary UCSC Farm and was punctuated with somewhat extemporaneous presentations by current and former apprentices.

     
 
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What We Overlook Remains:
Notes on Chris Sollars’ Islais Creek Walk

By John Graham San Francisco 2014


On a recent weekend, I joined up with artist Chris Sollars and about thirty others—three of whom were his assistants—as we walked the historic route of Islais Creek, from its origins in Glen Canyon (often called the last wild canyon in the city of San Francisco) all the way to the bay where the creek finishes out.

 
 
 
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Off Shore: Finding City Waterways in Unexpected Places
By Laura Jaye Cramer for SF Weekly May 30 2014


Southern Exposure, invited Sollars to be a part of their summer series, Off Shore. In Sollars' pieces entitled Water Shed, he and his crew take participants on walks along San Francisco's forgotten streamlets.

     
 
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Off Shore: S.F. Waterways and Bays as Artistic Medium
By Laura Jaye Cramer for SF Weekly May 27 2014


The gallery has put together Off Shore, a series of events that celebrate the waterways and bay specific to San Francisco. Did you know that there are hidden creeks that pass through the City for miles? Southern Exposure brings together artists Paul Cesewski, Constance Hockaday, Marie Lorenz, Chris Sollars, and A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting, who use these locations to explore their relationships to the water of San Francisco and show how it can be used as an artistic medium.

     
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Tim Kopra, Haegen Crosby, Chris Sollars, Matt Shapiro, Nolan Jankowski; Courtney Costello behind camera, Marc Alley equipment and technical support