Past Exhibition

Los Angeles Poverty Department Presents: State of Incarceration

A gallery installation and performances

November 6-20, 2010

Opening Reception: November 6, Saturday, 6-9 pm

Performance: November 12, Friday, 8pm

Performance: November 13, Friday, 8pm

Performance: November 19, Friday, 8pm

Performance: November 20, Friday, 8pm

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This installation will fill the main floor of The Box wall-to-wall with 30 bunk beds, same as in over crowded California State Prisons--- where gymnasiums and cafeterias have been turned into dormitories housing 3 and 4 hundred prisoners. The exhibition will include 5 performance events -each one different--- all will take place within the prison bunk-bed installation. Each performance is an experiment in which the performers, the audience, and the performance material are inserted into this restrictive prison architecture.

Based in the Skid Row neighborhood, Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) is a non-profit arts organization that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty.

The performance material, developed in LAPD's workshops, articulates the performers inside understanding of how the prison system functions.