What Fuels Development?

What Fuels Development? explores the mechanics of displacement in an age of immense income inequality, and Skid Row’s fight to not be overwhelmed by an alcohol fueled entertainment district. What Fuels Development? addresses a particular development struggle, in which Skid Row residents organized to successfully appeal a non-profit developer’s attempt to put an alcohol serving restaurant in the ground floor of a residential hotel housing formerly homeless people.

The performance combines “found text” from this hearing and improvised scenes that in a hallucinated fashion imagine the behind the scenes dealings that led to the conception of this ill-fated restaurant. The performance takes place in a fantasy restaurant, installed in the Armory’s Caldwell Gallery, and will be staged in the round with the audience in the middle.