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RFK in EKY, The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project , is a series of public conversations and activities centered around the real-time, site-specific intermedia performance that recreated, on September 9th and 10th 2004, Robert Kennedy’s two-day, 200 mile “poverty tour” of southeastern Kentucky in 1968.
An Appalshop project directed by John Malpede.

Recreating Imbalance
A short description by John Malpede that describes the conceptual links between Agents & Assets and RFKinEKY.

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AGENTS & ASSETS

AGENTS & ASSETS is a National Residency Performance Project which seeks to give voice to the people whose communities have been most devastated by drugs and counterproductive drug policies. The text of Agents & Assets is a March 18, 1998, hearing transcript from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The allegations in question in this session were made in a 1996 series of articles by journalist Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News, which alleged CIA involvement in crack cocaine trafficking into the Los Angeles area. With Agents and Assets LAPD puts day to day experiences in a larger social and political context while exposing the root causes and policies that help perpetuate poverty

AGENTS & ASSETS has been performed in Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland, Utrecht (the Neterlands), Compton, Philadelphia, Baltimore and 3 boroughs of New York.

Agents & Assets History

A National Residency Performance Project

AGENTS & ASSETS is a National Residency Performance Project which seeks to give voice to the people whose communities have been most devastated by drugs and counterproductive drug policies. The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) was founded in 1985 in acknowledgement of the inherently social process of theater. The organization has historically used theater with other means of public education, organizing, partnering and activism to call attention to the plight of the poor. With Agents and Assets, LAPD has initiated a national theater project that puts day to day experiences in a larger social and political context while exposing the root causes and policies that help perpetuate poverty.

Watch a 6,5 min. clip on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZLopB1stxc

"Recreating Imbalance" : A short description by John Malpede that describes the conceptual links between Agents & Assets and RFKinEKY.