Long Beach based artist Glenn Bach presents Atlas EVAD, a project in his extended Atlas series. Over the summer of 2006, Bach walked and investigated the East Village Arts District (bounded by Ocean Boulevard, Atlantic Avenue, 4th Street, and Elm Avenue) in downtown Long Beach, California. Using drawings, photographs, found texts, and sounds, Bach has created a multi-faceted portrait of the Arts District as place, a shifting series of observations about a group of overlapping neighborhoods that defy straightforward categorization. Atlas EVAD provides the framework for examining city streets from the point of view of the pedestrian; in this case one who is simultaneously a resident local and visiting tourist. By remixing the urban walk, Bach circumvents the usual manner in which a city is navigated, generating nuanced and idiosyncratic travelogues for the contemporary urban landscape.
Atlas EVAD (slide show)
Atlas EVAD (sounds slide show)
Link to the following:
Atlas EVAD (sound drawings)
Atlas EVAD (sun glare)
Atlas EVAD (palimpsest version)
Atlas EVAD (chapbook plates)
Atlas EVAD (palimpsest 07)
Atlas EVAD (palm glare)
Atlas EVAD (video clip drawings)
Atlas EVAD (Broadway South)
Atlas EVAD (open panorama)
ATLAS | BACH 
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