Reclaiming, Remembering, Resisting: Swimming Upstream Flows from the Superdome into the New Orleans Diaspora

“Culture Vulture” or community activist? When New Orleanian artists had to compete with higher-profile artists for funding and resources to create works in response to their own disaster, ethical issues emerged. Of the many post-disaster performances in New Orleans, the collaboratively written play Swimming Upstream thrives as an ongoing process and model for a partnership of local and out-of-region responses to disaster.