State of Incarceration Explores the Social and Personal Costs of Incarceration
Highways Performance Space and Gallery (1651 18th Street Santa Monica, CA 90404)
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All offers for Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD): State of Incarceration have expired.
The last date listed for Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD): State of Incarceration was Saturday February 5, 2011 / 8:30pm.
1 Goldstar Member Review
Alex
LAPD is doing important work, and several parts of the work really affected me. It was a little slow, but I think that may have been intended. My sister is a prison guard at Folsom, and I think that the guards were one-dimensional and not well thought out. A prison environment degrades and damages everyone, including the guards.Written on Feb 21 2011
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Description
Los Angeles Poverty Department’s (LAPD) new performance work examines the personal and social costs of incarceration in the U.S.
Each performance of State of Incarceration is an experiment in which the performers, the audience, and the performance material are inserted into a restrictive prison architecture that replicates the over-crowded California State Prisons, where gymnasiums and cafeterias have been turned into dormitories housing three or four hundred prisoners. The performance space is filled wall-to-wall with 60 bunk-beds, the same model used in the prison system. The US Supreme Court is at present deliberating whether these conditions prevalent in the California State Prisons constitute cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the Constitution.
In State of Incarceration, LAPD artists articulate the mental and physical challenges of incarceration and the resources needed to endure and recover from it. When released from state penitentiaries with $200 gate money, parolees are directed to Skid Row with the largest concentration of low cost housing in LA County. 33% of parolees released to the Los Angeles area settle in the 52 square block neighborhood of Skid Row.
About the Ticket Supplier: Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space is Southern California's boldest center for new performance. Founded in 1989, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works.
Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms. Our mission is implemented through four programs (the performance space, workshop/university program and two galleries). Annually, Highways co-presents approximately 250 performances by solo dramatic artists, small theater groups, dance companies and spoken word artists; curates and exhibits approximately 12 contemporary visual art exhibits per year with work that explores the boundaries between performing and visual art forms; commissions and premieres new work by outstanding performing artists; organize special events, curate festival, offer residency and educational programs that engage community members in the arts while providing access to professionally-directed instruction.