Hydrology Bike Tour

Attention bike and infrastructure enthusiasts: Clockshop presents a 22-mile guided bike tour through the South Bay led by the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Infrastructure Inspections. This tour continues Clockshop’s multi-day series with artist Rosten Woo tracing the pathways of water in Los Angeles. What does water want, and what do we want from water? This public bike tour will investigate the southern edge of the Los Angeles basin, where water flows into the Pacific Ocean, by visiting manmade wetlands and water treatment facilities in Long Beach and Harbor City. We’ll look at how water is captured and released and the ways that humans degrade and improve water and land. 

Saturday, June 7, 2025
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
DeForest Park
6255 De Forest Ave, Long Beach, CA 90805

Rosten Woo will join Hunter Baoengstrum for a lunchtime conversation at Machado Lake in Harbor City, the mid-point of the tour. Established in 2021 by Baeongstrum, the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Infrastructure Inspections explores all the systems that facilitate the functioning of Los Angeles through walking and biking experiences, including airports, oil fields, storm drains, international borders, nuclear missile defense sites, freeway medians, fortune cookie dumpsters, etc. 

The past two tours in Spring 2024 took us to rarely seen sites of water treatment, water modeling, and habitat creation at the Sepulveda Basin and Glendale Narrows section of the Los Angeles River. These public programs are designed to foster group learning as part of Clockshop’s three-year initiative with Rosten Woo that will culminate in a permanent artwork at the Bowtie Wetland Demonstration Project, a 3-acre stormwater filtration and habitat demonstration project along the LA River. Learn more about Woo’s most recent project, What Water Wants, a 30-minute audio experience on the river’s banks.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Hunter Baoengstrum (b. 2000, Huntington Beach, CA) is an artist whose practice navigates the financial, cultural, and historical implications of municipal infrastructures by appropriating public sector aesthetics as the founder and manager of the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Infrastructure Inspections. Baoengstrum's work explores the material realities of bureaucratic planning by researching and organizing site-specific inspections on foot and by bike that exploit loopholes in public space. He is drawn to landscapes underneath everyday perception, both conceptually and concretely, that permit the complete elimination of friction between seemingly distant places, and seeks to utilize them to stress the cracks in modernity. 

Rosten Woo is a designer, writer, and educator living in Los Angeles. He produces civic-scale artworks and works as a collaborator and consultant to a variety of grassroots and non-profit organizations. His work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Netherlands Architectural Institute, the Exploratorium, and various piers, public housing developments, tugboats, shopping malls, and parks. He is co-founder and former executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and received the National Design Award for institutional achievement. His book, "Street Value,” was published by Princeton Architectural Press. Woo is a recent recipient of the Stanton and Emerson Collective fellowships to study civic memory and democracy.

ACCESSIBILITY
Light lunch and water will be provided at Machado Lake at 12:00 PM; attendees have the option of joining for the lunch conversation only and not participating in the full bike tour. 

Clockshop will release a map and full access information in May.