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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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Blue Thunder
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Friend,  
MoTo and me, we just came from Los Angeles.  And on behalf of the city of Los Angeles, home of the ‘84 Olympics, and the homeless capital of America, MoTo and I have been asked by the L.A.O.O.C., (the Los Angeles Committee for the Organizing of Olympics),  to travel this land during the Olympics and tell the people of our land this Olympic Update Report.  And they asked us to do this.  And they paid for us to do this.  They gave us one-way bus tickets to travel America and come here.  They gave us one way bus tickets.  They paid for them.  And this is called Greyhound therapy. And We were in Los Angeles  for the Olympics.  What the Olympics were like, the Olympics were like the movie Blue Thunder.  Blue thunder was in Los Angeles.  And just like in the movie there were super helicopters, like Blue Thunder, from the LAPD Skywatch watching down from the sky.  there were Olympic helicopters everywhere.  All over the city.  the shinny ones -- not the puffy helicopters that are round like balls, but the long ones like blue thunder, that look like giant grasshoppers and can see through walls.  they can point right at you, and they know how cold or hot you are.  And they can find you and shoot you down just because you’re warm, thinking the wrong thoughts.  (And you thought there weren’t any more of them because in Blue Thunder Roy Snyder shot them down with an old-fashioned bubble helicopter, and got the tape to the T. V. station that showed how they were going to look through walls and go into your mind and read it even when you were sleeping).

But now there are Olympic helicopters and they fly over the city and sit on the sides of skyscrapers like the 17 year locusts -- like when  the 17 year locusts came and covered all the trees in Ohio.  and they ate, ate, ate, ate, ate all the leaves of off all the trees in all of Ohio.  And now the Olympic helicopters, they sit on the sides of the buildings reading thoughts and looking for terrorists.  And the LAPD they come down in to the skid row park at 6th and Gladys, across the street from the Hippy kitchen and the Regal Hotel, and they make everyone lie down on the ground with their heads behind their hands.  And they talk thru their walkie talkies to the Olympic helicopters.  And the Olympic helicopters read the minds of the people lying on the ground and they signal the LAPD and the LAPD take them away.  they take them away and they put them in jail so that we can have the Olympics.  

If you’re a terrorist you can pretend you’re not by thinking cool thoughts all day long.  But when you fall asleep, the terrorist thoughts will come back into your mind and the Olympic helicopters (no matter where you are) will feel the heat and they will find you.  And now that all the terrorists have been plucked up and carried off to jail by the Olympic helicopters, you can get a bed at the Weingart Center or the Midnite Mission.  And before the Olympics you hardly ever could and you’d have to sleep outside in a box. Box, box, box, all around the Midnite mission on Los Angeles Street.  Box, box, box, back into the alley in your box.  And that’s o.k.  It’s good, because if you’re sleeping there with everyone in boxes, you’re not going to get into any trouble.  --- Like the old lady who slept all alone in the goofy car she decorated with balls in the vacant lot over on 5th and Wall.  She got cut up.

 

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