Exploring the issues surrounding race, class and gender is at the heart of the work of Artist damali ayo. As a conceptual artist, she uses visual art, the web, performance and audio to generate experience and dialogue for her audience. In her ongoing street performance called living flag , she collects reparations for the enslavement of African Americans by taking to the street as a panhandler. There she accepts reparation payments from white people and distributes these reparations to black people. Her stage is a busy street corner anywhere in the U.S. You might even find her one day on a street in your home town. damali ayo presents the images and text of her performance art piece and teamed up with Producer Dmae Roberts to document this audio of ‘the street’. First aired on Studio 360 in 2004.

Exploring the issues surrounding race, class and gender is at the heart of the work of Artist damali ayo. As a conceptual artist, she uses visual art, the web, performance and audio to generate experience and dialogue for her audience. In her ongoing street performance called living flag , she collects reparations for the enslavement of African Americans by taking to the street as a panhandler. There she accepts reparation payments from white people and distributes these reparations to black people. Her stage is a busy street corner anywhere in the U.S. You might even find her one day on a street in your home town. damali ayo presents the images and text of her performance art piece and teamed up with Producer Dmae Roberts to document this audio of ‘the street’. First aired on Studio 360 in 2004.