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Exhibit Info:
Featuring the Lightz and Soundz of.
A 30-Year Survey of DJ Culture from East L.A
June 7 August 9, 2008
G727 is pleased to present Featuring the Lightz and Soundz of., an interactive participatory exhibition celebrating the first 30 years of DJ culture focusing on the Chicano/a experience in Los Angeles.
This exhibition will develop over the course of nine weeks and invites the public to contribute their party flyers, images, anecdotes, and spinning skills to an ongoing series of events and remembrances, while developing a living archive that can serve as the basis for historical research of the genres contribution to the Southern California cultural landscape.
Working in collaboration with Power Tools (a weekly DJ mixshow program on Los Angeles Power 106 FM), which has chronicled the nuances of the DJ scene and continue to keep it alive in underground settings, Featuring the Lightz and Soundz of. will function as a staging ground for the search of the intimate and personal experiences that have contributed to the formation of distinct alternative dance movements, honoring the complexities of its chronology, geography, and surrounding social context.
G727 welcomes testimonies, photos, flyers and mixes (cassette, CD or MP3) to help build the narrative about the variety of spaces and happenings that make up the first 30 years of East L.A. DJ culture. This exhibition provides a collaborative contextual framework for participants, past and present, to become active producers in the documentary process of their own cultural histories.
Contact: Adrian Rivas 213 627 9563 gallery727losangeles@yahoo.com http://www.myspace.com/7dos7
