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(creaking sound)

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My name's Eirik Johnson
and I'm an artist

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and I have a site specific

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installation here at the
Georgetown Steam Plant.

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(creaking sound, water dripping)

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The steam plant was built

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originally on the banks
of the Duwamish River,

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(flowing river)

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but then in the 1930s,
the Duwamish was straightened

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to allow for larger
maritime commerce.

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And in so doing,
the steam plant was cut off

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from the Duwamish
by half a mile,

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so they had to pump water
back to the steam plant.

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♪♪

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This installation is, in a
sense, reconnecting the two.

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It's bringing
the sound of the river,

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the visuals of the river
back to the steam plant

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In this space

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we have a

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very large projection screen
and it's

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showing a sort of sequence
of images that I made

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from my kayak
while I was paddling beneath

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the hulls

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of these transoceanic barges

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that port
on the Duwamish River.

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So I'm literally

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going into the space
beneath the hulls

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when the sun is very low

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in the horizon
and it sort of enters

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into these
new architectural spaces.

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The Duwamish is

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an amazing environment
to just be present in,

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but certainly to go out
and make,

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make work
and to respond creatively.

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♪♪

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There's a community
development authority

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that has been
put together to essentially

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dream and

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reimagine and
reactivate the steam plant.

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I think it's important
for the city, for us

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as citizens, to value
that it's

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this is part of our history,

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but it also
is an opportunity

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to kind of reengage
our history with performance

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culture,
events of this nature.