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The engineers and workers who are intimately familiar with Portland’s bridges will be given a new voice during a temporary public art installation that premiers Thursday.

Artists Ed Purver and Tim DuRoche collaborated with the Multnomah County Bridge Section to reveal the inner workings of the bridges that span the Willamette River. The team interviewed the people who engineer, operate and maintain the bridges, recorded sounds of the Hawthorne Bridge, and explored the insides of the Morrison Bridge.

鈥�,鈥� sponsored by the Regional Arts & Culture Council’s artist-in-residence program, will use large-scale video projections on the piers of the Morrison Bridge. It will be visible from the north side of the Hawthorne Bridge, Waterfront Park and the Eastbank Esplanade between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. until Sept. 10.

The sounds of buses, cars, bikes, and anything else that crosses the Hawthorne Bridge will trigger projections of the various sound waves, interspersed with audio clips from the interviewees. The audio will be available until Oct. 9.

鈥淭his project has been a great collaboration between the artists and the Bridge Section employees,鈥� said Peggy Kendellen, Public Art Manager for the Regional Arts & Culture Council. 鈥淭heir expertise and willingness to share that expertise has really made this whole project possible.鈥�

鈥淭he Hidden Life of Bridges鈥� will be the last project through the RACC artist-in-residence program, which began in 2000 with funding from the purchase of Multnomah Building at Southeast Hawthorne Street and Grand Avenue.