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Amelia Kirby, Donna Porterfield, Nick Szuberla Thousand Kites

Discipline
Emerging Fields
Medium
Digital Art
Subject

Politics

Race
State
Kentucky
Year
2006
Status
In Production

Description

Thousand Kites is a community-based performance, web and radio project centered on the United States prison system and created with inmates, employees and their families. Material is developed with inmates at two Appalachian super-maximum security prisons, which are then turned into scripts, installations and broadcasts in the communities most affected by these facilities. These events take place at churches and community centers and on small radio stations near prisons from Sing-Sing in New York to Angola in Louisiana. Through the group’s website, scripts and other items are available for free to the general public. Thousand Kites draws on projects by the groundbreaking collective Appalshop and by Nick Szuberla’s own group, Holler to the Hood.

Amelia Kirby

Drawing on her upbringing in a family of traditional Appalachian musicians, Amelia Kirby creates sound and documentary projects with the collectives App…
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Donna Porterfield

Dramaturge, playwright, and producer Donna Porterfield is one of the leaders of the community-based ensemble Roadside Theater, a company that develops p…
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Nick Szuberla

Media artist Nick Szuberla has broadcast his performance and media projects throughout America, at venues that include the Policy Research Institute’s R…
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