By Robin Riskin
“The Box That Rocks,” guest curated by Dexter Wimberly at MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts, Brooklyn) celebrates the global influence of Ralph McDaniels’ “Video Music Box” in the rise of hip hop music.
Through film, photography, mixed media, and digital statistical representations, the exhibition explored understandings of hip hop in artistic, popular, corporate, and scientific contexts. The show closed May 28….but check out photos.
THE BOX THAT ROCKS: Amy Andrieux * Malik Y. Cumbo * LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs * Delphine Fawundu * Bobbito Garcia * Tahir Hemphill * Jonathan Mannion * Tim Okamura * M. Tony Peralta * Fab 5 Freddy * Ali Santana * Jamel Shabazz * Daniel Amazu Wasser
Collages by DANIEL AMAZU WASSER reassemble hip hop icons and corporate advertising.
I spy: Jay, Lauryn Hill, Biggie, Lil Wayne.
“I can take a phrase that’s rarely heard, flip it, now it’s a daily word.” – Rakim Allah, “Follow the Leader.” – DELPHINE FAWUNDU’s video installation begins with the question, “What is your most memorable Hip Hop quotable?” in “Word Play: Some Memorable Hip Hop Quotables.”
DELPHINE FAWUNDU captures swagger and raw expression in “African Swag: West African Hip Hop Movement” (Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana). Spot Naeto C (Lagos) at top right from this 2008 portrait.
This young man is an MC from Nima, Accra, Ghana, shot in 2010.
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