The Invisible City was a five-week, site-specific experimental arts lab exploring public space in downtown Tucson. Co-directed with Lisa Bowden, the project was a collaboration between NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre and Kore Press, a Tucson-based feminist press.

The project brought together over 20 women artists to create texts, dances, sound pieces, film, photographs, and drawings within Tucson's urban core. It was an experiment in merging the creative processes of artists working across distinct disciplines in a city slow to revitalize—a city that has historically valued highways and tract housing developments over central plazas, affordable live/work spaces, and desert landscape. In Tucson, public space had become decentralized, dehumanized, and "invisible."

Through writing, dance, music, and visual art, we envisioned and activated new workspaces out of vacant parking lots, city plazas, and sidewalks. Our laboratory experiment culminated in a multidisciplinary performance incorporating video projection, spoken word, live music, and modern dance on the roof of a parking garage.

See videos, images, writings, and lab results from The Invisible City at www.invisiblecityproject.wordpress.com.