www.ayanah.com
(W)RAPPER project
video loop, projection, speakers
exhibition view
2007
(l) Jack Wilson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

What do we make of the white rapper? Is the white emcee’s relationship to hip hop one of political resistance to the dominant white culture? Or now that hip hop is mainstream does white engagement equate selling out? (W)RAPPER addresses the politics of whiteness, ideas of cultural code and consumerism. Projected video works add to the discourse of invisibility, white privilege and appropriation by interrogating representation and performance.
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