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B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip HopJune 28 – September 9, 2007rap . graffiti . dj . dance . panels . fashion . poetry . visual exhibition . film |
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Keegan Xavi |
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A tenth grade teacher I had at North High School taught us how to analyze the methodology of advertising; how corporations psychologically try to push their products and influence the consumer. Ever since then I have been unable to look at a commercial or ad without examining how the corporation was trying to get under my skin and into my wallet. Through the years, I’ve peeped out this illusionary pipe dream being sold to us suggesting that everyone deserves to be blissfully happy regardless of the consequences this ignorant bliss causes others. How can anyone believe it is their sole right to rule the world? I had to learn the hard way about directly confronting “the system” because the answer I would often get was well that’s just how things are, that’s how they’ve always been no matter how logical my argument was about how to increase efficiency and harmony. The pieces that appear in this year’s B-Girl Be Exhibit were made at a time when I absolutely hated my corporate job and felt pissed off, trapped and hopeless that I would ever be able to make decent money doing something I truly loved. I would come home and take my frustrations out with scissors and paper and just worked through what I felt by reassembling other people’s images. It was fun hacking the illusions up and kaleidoscope-ing them in a way that said the truth about what I felt, but also made me laugh. Let them be sleep on us. Let them continue to allow us to know their motives and how they tick better than they know about why we do what we do and how we’re able to do these magical things. Let the ignorantly blissful sleep on…cuz while they sleep, we creep. Right? -Manifest Destiny, 2007 |
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kid & family-friendly . all ages . all genders . all incomes . all ethnic communities |
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