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| Gajin Fujita's "And What!" is part of the exhibit. |
"DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE: LA Asian Americans in Hip Hop" examines the genre’s influence of resistance, refuge, and reinvention for Asian American living in the greater Los Angeles region through art.
The exhibit, which opened in May at the Chinese American Museum, includes site-specific immersive spaces created by graffiti artists and muralists. Paintings, photographs, audio/video installations and historical ephemera are also on display.
Participating visual artists: DEFER, Gajin Fujita, Hueman, Kenny Kong, Farah Sosa, Shark Toof, SWANK, and Erin Yoshi. Featuring media and documents from B+ for Mochilla, Beat Junkie Institute of Sound, Culture Shock, organizers of the Firecracker music series Daryl Chou and Alfred Hawkins, and the performing artists Jason Chu, DJ Rhettmatic, DJ Babu, and SET.
Participating visual artists: DEFER, Gajin Fujita, Hueman, Kenny Kong, Farah Sosa, Shark Toof, SWANK, and Erin Yoshi. Featuring media and documents from B+ for Mochilla, Beat Junkie Institute of Sound, Culture Shock, organizers of the Firecracker music series Daryl Chou and Alfred Hawkins, and the performing artists Jason Chu, DJ Rhettmatic, DJ Babu, and SET.
Writes Sarah Lin for KCET: "The show examines hip-hop as a tool for 'resistance, refuge and reinvention' through the perspectives of Asian-Pacific American iconoclasts such as Filipino American DJ Babu, known for his work with World Famous Beat Junkies; Indian-American artist Nisha Sethi, whose henna-inspired works quote A Tribe Called Quest; and Japanese-American painter Gajin Fujita, whose gilded pieces blend graffiti, pop culture and centuries-old art."
The exhibit is being curated by Justin Charles Hoover and Ninochka “Nosh” McTaggart,
“It wasn’t about being Filipino American or being Chinese American or being Japanese American. It was about being a musician,” says Hoover.
“We are not just our racial background… We’re not just our race or our gender,” McTaggart added. “We take influence and inspiration from our community, our environment, our city.”
As a result, Babu echoed, “I’m more proud than ever to be a Filipino American doing what I’m doing.”
The exhibit runs through November at the Chinese American Museum at 425 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles.
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