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Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses Scholar of African American Culture Thursday, March 5 Members Preview | 6–7PM Public Opening | 7–9PM These events are free, Public open to the public, and take “If nothing else, Screw culture was a Programs place at Contemporary love letter to Houston, a sonic rendering Slowed and Arts Museum Houston. Seating is limited. Please of the illegibility of Houston’s Black check camh.org for the Throwed most current information. communities made legible by slowing it down.” March 6–June 7, 2020 —Dr. Regina N. Bradley, Opening Reception | Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses Scholar of African American culture Thursday, March 5 Members Preview | 6–7PM Public Opening | 7–9PM Art at Noon | Lance Scott Walker Friday, March 6 | Noon–1PM In Conversation | Patricia Restrepo, CAMH Exhibitions Manager and Assistant Curator, with artists Tay Butler, Robert Hodge, and Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud Saturday, March 7 | 11AM–Noon Open Studio | Community Remix Saturday, March 7 | 2–4PM Karen Navarro. Fragment Tom Van Laan, Joe and Anderson Foundation, (detail), 2019. Archival Johanne Gatto, Blakely National Endowment for Family Day and Teen Council-organized Fashion Show inkjet print, wood, and and Trey Griggs, Kerry the Arts, The Sarofim epoxy. 48 x 56 inches. Inman and Denby Auble, Foundation, Louisa Saturday, March 21 | 1–4PM Courtesy the artist Louise Jamail, Page Stude Sarofim, Susan and Foto Relevance, Kempner, Dillon A. Kyle Vaughan Foundation, 5216 Montrose Boulevard Houston, Texas. and Sam L. Lasseter, Bryn Texas Commission on the Open Studio | Making Beats Houston, Texas 77006 Larsen, Erica and Benjy Arts, Vinson & Elkins LLP, @camhouston Slowed and Throwed: Levit, Marian Livingston, Wallace S. Wilson, The Saturday, April 4 | 2–4PM CAMH.ORG Records of the City Lucinda and Javier Loya, Wortham Foundation, Inc., #atCAMH Through Mutated Lenses Catherine and George Marion and David Young, #SlowedandThrowed is made possible in part Masterson, Elisabeth Michael Zilkha. by a major grant from the and Brian McCabe, Greg Artist-Benefactors— Talk and Performance | Artists from the Screwed Up Click HOURS National Endowment for McCord, Mac and Karen Andisheh Avini, Rhona (S.U.C.): E.S.G., Lil’ Flip, and Will-Lean the Arts. McManus, Floyd and Bitner, Will Boone, Robert Mon. Closed Janice Newsum, Cabrina Bordo, Billy Childish, Thursday, April 9 | 6:30–8:30PM Tue. 10AM–7PM and Steven Owsley, Elisa Holly Coulis, Cheryl Wed. 10AM–7PM Stude Pye, Howard and Donegan, Mark Flood, Thu. 10AM–9PM Contemporary Arts Beverly Robinson, Jay Wayne Gilbert, Thomas 20Hertz | ‘dando with Devin Kenny Fri. 10AM–7PM Museum Houston is Shinn and Tim Hurst, Glassford, Roberta Harris, Sat. 10AM–6PM funded in part by the Nicholas and Kelly Silvers, Oliver Herring, Jenny Thursday, April 16 | 6:30–7:30PM Sun. 12PM–6PM City of Houston through Elizabeth and Barry Young. Holzer, David Kelley, Paul the Houston Museum Exhibition Donors Kremer, Georgia Marsh, IMAGES District Association. and Patrons—Chinhui Floyd Newsum, Angel Art at Noon | Artists Rabéa Ballin and Jamal Cyrus CAMH thanks the and Eddie Allen, Art Otero, Aaron Parazette, Cover: DJ Screw board of trustees and Market Productions, Susie Rosmarin, Friday, May 29 | Noon–1PM in his home studio. their families for their Vera and Andy Baker, Ed Ruscha, Margo Courtesy SoSouth Music support—Liz Anders, The Brown Foundation, Sawyer, Bret Shirley, Distribution. Photo by Ben Allison Armstrong Ayers Inc. of Houston, Jereann Peter Sullivan, Mary Performance | Texas Noise and Ambience DeSoto ©1995. and David Ayers, Mary and Chaney, George and Weatherford, Guy Yanai. Marcel Barone, James Mary Josephine Hamman Thursday, June 4 | 6:30–8:30PM Inside (L to R): Tay Butler. M. Bell, Jr. and Kimberly Foundation, Houston SLAMA (detail), 2020. Lacher, Margaret Vaughan Endowment, Inc., John Digital collage, dimensions Cox and Jonathan Cox, R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation, variable. Courtesy Haydeh and Ali Davoudi, Sissy and Denny the artist. Ruth Dreessen and Kempner, KPMG, M.D. Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City These resources are Suggested recommended for further Through Mutated Lenses is a two-part Resources inquiry into the artwork interdisciplinary exhibition orbiting around and themes explored in the legacy of the late Houston legend DJ the exhibition Slowed and Throwed: Records Screw (born Robert Earl Davis Jr.). He of the City Through produced his “chopped and screwed” Mutated Lenses. technique—reducing pitch, slowing tempo, distorting input, and chopping lyrics to produce new meanings—by using two Listening turntables to slow down and layer hip hop tempos. The hallmarks of DJ Screw’s DJ Screw Principe Q – 3 ‘n the Mornin’, 1996 – Screwmbia Vol. 2, 2018 namesake sound are synonymous with The exhibition features exhibition is displayed within a gallery – 99’ Live, 1999 Houston hip hop, earning him the nickname unconventional photography and that mirrors the original location new media created by strategies of Screwed Up Records & Tapes on “The Originator.” DJ Screw would take a that parallel the musical methods Houston’s Cullen Boulevard, and is Reading small commission from individuals to create of the innovative DJ. In their photo- activated by a musical playlist compiled adjacent practices, the participating by E.S.G., rapper and member of the Ball, Jared Mackey, Nathaniel a mixtape featuring requested songs. He artists appropriate, mash-up, Screwed Up Click. – I Mix What I Like! A – Blue Fasa, 2015 Mixtape Manifesto, 2011 would then dub copies of that original tape collage, and mutate photographic Slowed and Throwed is curated Moten, Fred inputs, in addition to slowing time. by Patricia Restrepo, Exhibitions Bradley, Regina N. – Black and Blur, 2017 to sell to the public. On the over 340 known Slowed and Throwed contends that Manager and Assistant Curator at – Boondock Kollage: Njami, Simon Stories from the Hip Hop mixtapes he created, DJ Screw distorted remixing “sampled” materials is Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; – Africa Remix: South, 2017 a radical aesthetic act utilized by alongside guest curators Big Bubb, Comtemporary Art of a works by popular musical artists and layered both artists and musicians. Through owner of Screwed Up Records & Tapes; Eshun, Kodwo Continent, 2005 reconfigurations of sourced and and E.S.G., rapper and member of the – More Brilliant than the freestyles raps by numerous Houston-based Pendleton, Adam original materials, the featured Screwed Up Click. The exhibition’s Sun, 1998 – Black Dada Reader, 2017 artists for his “chopped up” version of the artists draw attention to inequities research advisors are Julie Grob, Feireiss, Lukas (Editor) Scott Walker, Lance stemming from race, gender, and Coordinator for Instruction and – Radical Cut-Up: Nothing original. Despite his untimely death at age 29 – Houston Rap Tapes: An sexual orientation, suggesting new Curator of Houston Hip Hop Research is Original, 2019 in 2000, the hip hop DJ, influential creator possibilities and alternative realities. Collection at the University of Oral History of Bayou All of the participating artists in Houston Libraries, and Rocky Rockett, Holiday, Harmony City Hip-Hop, 2013 of the “chopped and screwed” DJ technique, – Hollywood Forever, 2017 Slowed and Throwed are Houston- independent hip hop educator. Toomer, Jean and leader of Houston's Screwed Up Click affiliated—either from, or at some The photographic component Jafa, Arthur – Cane, 1923 – A Series of Utterly point based here. This tie to the city of Slowed and Throwed serves as Washington, Bryan continues to influence artistic genres around Improbable, Yet manifests in a strong sense of place CAMH’s presentation in the 2020 – Lot: Stories, 2019 the world. evident in many of the artworks. FotoFest Biennial, which will take Extraordinary Renditions, A nesting exhibition of DJ Screw place in Houston during the run of 2018 archival materials, partly from the this exhibition. University of Houston Libraries, Participating visual artists Viewing serves as the physical and conceptual B. Anele, Rabéa Ballin, Tay Butler, core of Slowed and Throwed. Placing Jimmy Castillo, Jamal Cyrus, Robert the curated archive in dialogue with Hodge, Shana Hoehn, Tomashi Hip Hop Evolution This Thing We Do: Houston – Rodrigo Bascuñán and DJ Culture Revealed (A photo-based artworks demonstrates Jackson, Ann Johnson, Devin Kenny, Darby Wheeler Documentary Film) the resonances between DJ Screw’s Liss LaFleur, Karen Navarro, Ayanna – Flash Gordon Parks, 2017 creative process and those of the Jolivet Mccloud, Sondra Perry, and RiP!: A Remix Manifesto exhibiting artists. The archival Charisse Pearlina Weston – Brett Gaylor, 2008.
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