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»Retrospective of The Equation« (Shooting Information And Attacking Letter Formation Functions)
(1991)

https://www.genatem.com
[Rammellzee]; Atem, Gen Atem, Gen (Camera:selfTimerShot)
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Happening Music performance Art and life voc_absurd Prepared performance object Language Exhibition space Documentation of a performance

From Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Atem ) : From 1986 to 1994, Atem, Gen; collaborated with the New York artist Rammellzee, who interlaced graffiti with elements of Afrofuturism in his work, which he called Ikonoklast Panzerism – Gothic Futurism. Together with Rammellzee, Atem, Gen; realized various performances and exhibitions in New York City and Amsterdam between 1986 and 1994. Atem, Gen; and Rammellzee organized and executed so-called "art battle performances", like the one at Eigen+Art Gallery in New York City in 1994, titled "Exercises in Self Presentation". For these art battles, each artist created 26 sculptures, each of which represented one of the letters of the alphabet. A chassis with wheels was an integral part of each sculpture, and the two artists had their letters compete with each other in combinations of so-called "letter formation functions" on a system of self-made tracks. Simultaneously, Atem, Gen; and Rammellzee played self-composed music and attacked each other with rhymes. Inspired by Afrofuturism, Atem, Gen; used language, his mobile letter sculptures, and his vocal music performances as a strategy and technology to transcend the digital divide. He created and performed in costumes similar to those worn by Sun Ra and Parliament-Funkadelic.

place: 28 Laight St, New York, NY 10013, USA
Dokumentationstyp: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action

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