DOWN IN THE GROUND
Performance and Installation, 2012
CREDITS
Artistic direction, Creation: Emily Rea, Lígia Teixeira, Liza Wade Green, Will Orzo
Collaboration: Local 147 Sandhogs, MTA engineers, water treatment workers, and FDNY Explosives Experts
Sound, Programming, Electronics: Ivan Franco
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Premiere | Newtown Creek Visitors Center, Brooklyn, NY 2012
600 feet below Manhattan, giant tunnels gush over 1.2 billion gallons of water into New York City every day. Deep in the schist of New York, miles of train tunnels are blasted through 400 million year old rock. A labyrinth of sewers and drains funnel to 14 wastewater treatment plants in the New York City area. Below the sidewalks of midtown, caverns several stories high loom under the surface. Hundreds of people spend parts of their lives surveying, engineering, building, blasting and rebuilding New York City— and these are the individuals who helped bring this installation to life, some of whom will be performing as part of D.I.G. Sandhogs, MTA and DEP employees' underground insights have helped the artists to explore the incredible infrastructure of daily life and the assumptions inherent in living in the city.
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