Can’t Take My Eyes Off You Performance Series
Jan Bindas-Tenney: Where the wastewater pools
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Where the Wastewater Pools is a site-specific audio walk and accompanying zine of poetry and maps. The audio walk is a 48-minute journey through my neighborhood in South Portland, Maine, starting at the Maine Motel, weaving through residential streets, ending at a stormwater treatment marsh. Where the Wastewater Pools is a love letter to my trans body, my family, my friends, and this strange community on the urban edges sandwiched between budget motels, a railyard, a cemetery, a golf course and the highway. This project is an investigation of place, sound, sense, embodiment, sadness, and liberation.
The audio walk takes 48 minutes to walk 1 mile. The fastest return route is .65 of a mile and takes 15-20 minutes.
Artwork by Teresa Pereira
ABOUT JAN BINDAS-TENNEY
Jan Bindas-Tenney is a white trans non-binary & queer organizer, facilitator, writer, reader, lover, friend and parent living on unceded Abenaki land. They hold an MFA in nonfiction from University of Arizona. Their writing has appeared in Orion, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters, CutBank, the Maine Review, among other places.
Preview of walk featuring music by Kafari