We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Collage Study 2: Museum Object and Cultural History
We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Collage Study 2: Date: 2020. Created by: Sekou Cooke, Jamaican American. Subject of: Pioneer Homes, American, founded 1941.
The object in the museum catalogue
A digital illustration by Sekou Cooke as part of the collage studies from “We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space.” The digital illustration takes a black-and-white photograph of public housing complex Pioneer Houses separated by the Interstate 81 in Syracuse, New York. The interstate stretches across the photograph and is highlighted in orange. In the far background, in the upper left quadrant, are the AXA Towers (the Equitable Towers since 2020). In the bottom left corner, below the highlighted highway, white text reads [“THE REMOVAL OF THE HIGHWAY HAS THE / POTENTIAL TO ESSTENTIALLY REPEAT THE / SAME OUTCOMES THAT THE CONSTRUCTION / OF THE HIGHWAYS HAD.”].
When installed, the collage studies comprise a 3x3 grid of nine different illustrations, with this illustration placed in the top middle.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2020
- Created by: Sekou Cooke, Jamaican American
- Subject of: Pioneer Homes, American, founded 1941
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: File size: 71.66 MB
- Place depicted: Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Architecture
- Topic: Art
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
- Topic: Housing
- Topic: Urban planning
- Object number: 2023.63.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Sekou Cooke
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Sekou Cooke Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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