Artist Allen-Golder Carpenter gives us a walkthrough of his solo show at No Gallery, an exploration of how we consume rap culture.
They love consuming the art we make out of survival,” she said. And there’s a sexiness to danger that keeps hip hop voyeurs fascinated yet apathetic, writes artistis less about rap music and more about its thoughtless consumption. Compiling images and found objects, the show delves into hip hop’s constant tug of war with the judicial system and censorship, a clash that features in several high-profile cases, from the sentencing of child rapper.
CARPENTER: It’s something I’ve always kept to myself. I’m just now starting to bring it out. Being a publicly exhibiting artist, you give a lot of yourself away. I’ve been doing that visually, so for a long time, I held on to it. You got to have creative endeavors that aren’t for professional means. All of my audio and spoken word are under a different name, Sojourner June Scott. It’s a combination of Sojourner Truth, June Jordan, who’s in “100 Rappers,” and Gil Scott-Heron, who is too.
RAJAGOPAL: Let’s talk about “100 Rappers.” A lot of these artists aren’t necessarily people you would consider rappers.CARPENTER: I’m already knowing. It gave me a little bit more room to add some people and take some out. I made this piece pretty intuitively. Even between when we first shot the work to when we opened the show, I changed a couple of them. It’s a living artwork and I like the idea that the work’s never really done.
RAJAGOPAL: That’s what I find so weird about certain people’s obsession with the Tay-K story, in a time where these stories are commodified in a certain way to entertain the public, basically.
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