We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Rendered Perspective 2: Museum Object and Cultural History
We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Rendered Perspective 2: Date: 2020. Created by: Sekou Cooke, Jamaican American. Subject of: Unidentified.
The object in the museum catalogue
A print by Sekou Cooke as part of “Rendered perspectives” from “We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space.” The print is set in a black and white city street. The sky is gray and there are several white buildings. The more foreground building has a house-shaped carving in the front, where an orange component has a black and white photograph of a family over it. In front of several other buildings are orange components also with black and white photographs. There are various scenes of people at the foreground. In the top center, white text reads [“THIS STORY IS TOLD ALONGSIDE THE WIDER HISTORY OF / PUBLIC HOUSING IN EAST LAKE IN ORDER TO ILLUSTRATE THAT THE REDEVELOPMENT / AT EAST LAKE, TOUTED BY MANY AS A GOLD STANDARD FOR / COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, IS MORE AN EXAMPLE OF / COMMUNITY REPLACEMENT THAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.”].
“Rendered perspectives” is comprised of two different renderings, with this print placed on the right.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2020
- Created by: Sekou Cooke, Jamaican American
- Subject of: Unidentified
- Type: prints
- Medium: print: ink on paper
- Medium: frame: wood (maple and American tulipwood), glass, metal
- Dimensions: H x W x D (framed): 24 3/4 × 36 13/16 × 1 1/2 in. (62.9 × 93.5 × 3.8 cm)
- Place depicted: Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: East Lake, Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Architecture
- Topic: Art
- Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
- Topic: Housing
- Topic: Urban planning
- Object number: 2023.92.2.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 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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