Invisible 5 is a self-guided audio tour of Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles that maps the stories of people fighting for environmental justice along the route, revealing the hidden geopolitics of that contested landscape. It’s an amazing, beautiful project created over a year and a half through a collaboration between three artists, two community-based arts and activism nonprofits and scores of residents throughout the I-5 corridor. It tells a complicated, multi-leveled story through fitsrt person narratives, field recordings, found sound, recorded music and archival audio documents. Invisible 5 is an extraordinary example of what can result when design sheds it's self-referrential nonsense, packs a lunch, throws on a backpack and takes to the road.
