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Plexus International 1993
The Repatriation of Art Into the Community, New York

On October 13 of 1993, in New York, at the Nuyorican Poets Café, in the Lower East Side, The Repatriation of Art into the Community was performed by Sandro Dernini, Franco Meloni,  Rolando Politi,  Anna Saba,  Antonello Dessi,  Patricia Nicholson Parker,  Annamaria Janin,  Giovanna Caltagirone,  Andrea Portas, David Boyle. It was made as a ritual procession conducted by Jose Rodriguez who carryied a copy of Mickey Pinero's American Indian chief statuette of the Nuyorican Poets Cafè that at the end of the procession met the original statuette, hold by Louis Griffith at the center of the stage of the Cafè, as a recall of the 1984 In order to Survive Call made in front to the Shuttle Theatre against the gentrification of the Lower East Side.

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