Back to the Bay:
An Exploration of the Marginal Zones of the San Francisco Bay

 

The Center for Land Use Interpretation turns its attention to the San Francisco Bay Area with Back to the Bay, a project focusing on the entity that unites, divides and defines this region: the Bay itself. Photographic images and text depict the landscape of the marginal zone of the Bay, part dumping ground and industrial sacrifice site, part wildlife refuge and recreational wonderland. Lurking beneath the surface are the relics of an almost forgotten history, buried by time and transformation. And on the surface, in places made nearly inaccessible by levees, dikes and fences, lie uninterpreted forms from our own era.

Film clips of the Bay and activity around its shores drawn from the remarkable Prelinger Archive were also displayed. These films, which date from the early 1900s through the 1970s, show the Bay environment as it is built and used by its inhabitants, a landscape of movement and change.

Grounding Back to the Bay in a geographic context, the art/science team Stillhere presented maps and other images that showed the physical changes to this area over time.

Read the newsletter article about this exhibit.

Back to the Bay: Exploring the Margins of the San Francisco Bay Region,
a catalog and self-guided tourbook documents this exhibition hosted by The Yerba Buena Center of The Arts in San Francisco.

See the publication from this exhibit.

 

 

 
Programs and Projects

EXHIBITS

Post Consumed
The Landscape of Waste in Los Angeles

Birdfoot
Where America's River Dissolves Into the Sea

Pavement Paradise
American Parking Space

The Blue Ridge Parkway
America's Drive Through Park

Up River
Points of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy

Ultima Thule
American Outpost at the Top of the World

Dissipation & Disintegration
Antennas and Debris Basins In The San Gabriel Mountains

Vacation
Dauphin Island

Terminal Island

Immersed Remains
Towns Submerged in America

Jane Wolff and the Delta Primer
A unique look at the California Delta Region

Wendover, USA

Emergency State:
First Responder and Law Enforcement Training Architecture

Diversions & Dislocations:
California's Owens Valley

Loop Feedback Loop:
The Big Picture of Traffic Control In Los Angeles

A View into the Pipe:
East Central Interceptor Sewer

On the Farm:
Live Stock Footage by Livestock

Ground-Up:
Photographs of the Ground in the Margins of Los Angeles

West Coast Points:
A Linear Portrait from North to South

The Best Dead Mall in America:
A Photographic Documentation and Indefinite Installation

Between Oregon and Mexico:
The California Coastal Records Project

Property in the Harper Lake Basin:
A Project of the CLUI Desert Research Station

Antarctic 1:
Views Along Antarctica's First Highway

One Wilshire
Telco Hotel Central

Alternate Routes
An Aerial Survey of the 'Inland Empire'

Ohio
Represented by a Selection of Sites from the Land Use Database

Proximity Issue:
The Barricades of the Federal District

Fresh Kills
From the CLUI Bulletin Board

Back to the Bay:
An Exploration of the Marginal Zones of the San Francisco Bay

Curious Orange:
Points of View of the Landscape of Orange County

The Desert Research Station Exhibit

On Locations:
Places as Sets in the Landscape of Los Angeles

Formations of Erasure:
Earthworks and Entropy

Todd Trigsted:
Views from the Pit

The Perceptual Arena of the American Landscape

The Nellis Range Complex:
Landscape of Conjecture

100 Places in Washington:
From the CLUI Archive

Commonwealth of Technology:
Extrapolations on the Contemporary Landscape of Massachusetts

Territory in Photo-Color:
The Post Cards of Merle Porter

Monuments of Displacement:
The Aerial Photographs
of Bill DuBois

Subterranean Renovations:
The Unique Architectural Spaces of Show Caves

The VORs of Texas

Model of Decay:
The Chesapeake Bay Hydraulic Model

Nuclear Proving Grounds of the World

Hinterland:
A Voyage into Exurban Southern California

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