The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy invites you to join us at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive for a performance entitled, “The Liberatory Living Room: Belongings Precede Belonging.” As the closing public program of the Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake exhibition, members of the After Echo Park Lake Archive Collective will present the politics and poetics of how an encampment became the commons.
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Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake is a public exhibition about how poor people make the city their home, even in the face of state violence. Abandoned by the city during a global pandemic, unhoused organizers created an encampment at Echo Park Lake that soon became an uprising against the policed-propertied order of Los Angeles. The exhibition and associated public programs activate an archive of organizing histories that is intended to be the practice of a collective future.
This exhibition is organized by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy with support provided by the Mellon Foundation. It is on display February 1-March 30, 2025 at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive, a project of Los Angeles Poverty Department.
Skid Row History Museum & Archive hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 2-5pm and by appointment.
