Littoral LA
An ethnographic foray into the more-than-human relationships at the city-ocean boundary. Organized by two avid free-divers, this research takes the Labyrinth Project underwater into the realm of the murky and toxic urban natures of the Santa Monica Bay. A place of DDT dumping, urban runoff, kelp forest crisis and coastal engineering. What does a city look like underwater, and what multi-species relations emerge in the novel ecologies of a groomed beach, a marina breakwater and a restored wetlands? The project will conduct a visual, aural and ethnographic survey of Marina Del Rey and Ballona Creek, the one-time mouth of the LA River?