developed a degree of agency and advocacy What does "Roger developed a degree of agency and advocacy through his employment" mean in the following context? Text: A similar, although better tolerated, example is Roger, a living artwork who ‘exhibited’ outside the Millbank Tate Gallery in London in the mid to late 1990s... This view, however, assumes that Roger was some sort of passive victim of Kaye’s self-promotional ambitions and that Kaye was motivated by this. ambition alone, neither of which were by any means the entire truth. It is clear, from footage taken for the Channel 4 arthouse documentary, that Roger developed a degree of agency and advocacy through his employment as a living artwork: he spoke out on issues of homelessness; he gained access to and took pleasure in art; and he ended up with somewhere to live and an income to survive on.