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Physical description:
107 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 27 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition
Date:
2021
21st century
21e siècle
Notes:
"This catalogue was published on the occasion of Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses, curated by Patricia Restrepo, Exhibitions Manager and Assistant Curator, for Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. The archival exhibition was guest curated by Big Bubb, Owner of Screwed Up Records & Tapes, and E.S.G., rapper and member of the Screwed Up Click"--Colophon
Catalog of exhibition held March 6-15, 2020 and February 24-April 25, 2021 at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and July 29-November 21, 2021 at Artpace San Antonio
Book bound with screws
HMSG copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment
Summary:
Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses is a two-part interdisciplinary exhibition orbiting around the legacy of the late Houston legend DJ Screw. Until his death in 2000, DJ Screw distorted songs by musical artists, creating "chopped and screwed" versions of the original by slowing the tempo, reducing pitch, chopping lyrics, and layering freestyles by Houston-based rappers. The exhibition features unconventional photography and new media created by strategies paralleling the musical methods of the innovative DJ. In their photo-adjacent practices, the participating artists appropriate, mash-up, collage, and mutate photographic inputs, in addition to slowing time. Slowed and Throwed contends that remixing "sampled" materials is a radical aesthetics act utilized by both artists and musicians. Through reconfigurations of sourced and original materials, the featured artists draw attention to inequities stemming from race, gender, and sexual orientation, suggesting new possibilities and alternative realities. Serving as the physical and conceptual core of Slowed and Throwed is a nesting exhibition of DJ Screw archival materials. Placing the curated archive in dialogue with photo-based artworks demonstrates the resonances between DJ Screw's creative process and those of the exhibiting artists
