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Los Angeles Poverty Department History of Incarceration

Discipline
Performing Arts
Medium
Interdisciplinary
Subject

Community

Politics
State
California
Year
2009
Status
Touring

Description

History of Incarceration is comprised of an evening-length theater performance, a public artwork and various community engagements around issues of incarceration in America. Utilizing collaborative techniques developed over 20 years with Malpede’s company, Los Angeles Poverty Department, History of Incarceration is created by artists, organizers and residents of Los Angeles’s Skid Row, many of whom are recently released from prison. Material is being developed through community meetings and partnerships with grassroots organizations, first toward a large-scale outdoor public event and then for the theatrical performance.

Los Angeles Poverty Department

Henriëtte Brouwers is the associate director of Los Angeles Poverty Department and a performer and director with 20 years of experience in Europe…
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Project Updates

2011: LAPD present State of Incarceration at RADAR LA Festival
2011: Video excerpt from the Highways performance of State of Incarceration is included in Police & Thieves exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago
2011: History of Incarceration premieres with State of Incarceration performance at Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles
2010: LAPD presents an iteration of History of Incarceration at BOX Gallery in Los Angeles
2010: Los Angeles Poverty Department receives an NPN Creation Fund Grant to support History of Incarceration
2010: Los Angeles Poverty Department presents work-in-progress performances of History of Incarceration for probationees at re-entry programs throughout Los Angeles