For nearly forty years my grandfather designed, planned, and supervised the spider-vein network of lines connecting Los Angeles to its distant sources of power. The electric grid was his second family: when he died, he left behind boxes of snapshots that mixed birthday parties and family Christmases with portraits of power plants and transmission towers. Years later, I learned his legacy also included some of the most polluting fossil fuel infrastructure in the country—much of it located out of state, on Indigenous land. Reframing the power grid as a dynamic entity that connects diverse and unequally vulnerable communities, this solo performance queers my family environmental history to explore our relationship to electricity, the (in)justice of infrastructure, and environmental debts that can never be repaid.
May 8 and 9, 7:00 PM
The Wayward Artist
Grand Central Arts Center
125 N Broadway #E, Santa Ana, CA 92701
$25 General Admission/$20 students
http://www.thewaywardartist.org
