Crooked River in First and Third Persons is a 48-hour way-finding via sound experiment that re-engages the multiple legacies of the Cuyahoga River - its industrial fires, marine life losses, engineers’ ambitions, immigrant dreams, serpentine navigations - with its contemporary forms of agency.

The river’s complex intertwined realities as an industrial, cultural and natural waterway is re-inscribed as a sonic way-finding system through the city grid of downtown Cleveland and the venue of Ingenuity Festival 2008.

Festival participants encounter these dynamic flows of nature-cultures via (1) a way-finding radio broadcast, (2) a feed of historical images triggered by the rivers flow and (3) cellphone-based eavesdropping on the river.