Los Angeles Poverty Department

The Los Angeles Poverty Department is a performance-based company working with residents living on LA’s Skid Row. The LAPD’s work is politically driven and often dramatizes real cases and stories of Skid Row residents.

1. The LAPD are the only performance-based project in this research. However the company often exhibits and performs within contemporary art spaces.
2. Unlike the other organisations studio facilities are not required.
3. Until recently the LAPD operated without a space. They recently opened the Skid Row History Museum that will be used as a space to hold exhibitions and events and also house a library that documents Skid Row.
4. The LAPD’s work is politically driven and often blurs the line between art and activism.