 Lucia Macari: Hip Hop On Bones, 2004 Drawing/Collage from Record vol. 3 Lucia Macari & Dimitri Riba HIP HOP ON BONES "HIP HOP ON BONES" is a hip-hop operetta in three volumes, featuring the three main protagonists of this real-life story presenting their points of view about the same "adventure". ...60's USSR. With just a little bit of money, anybody can walk into a studio, sing a song or speak a sound and directly cut a record on a postcard or a photograph. This is how millions of bootleg records are produced, without any censorship from official factories. Much of it is cut on the type of X-ray films used for regular health checks. Those records are called "music on bones". ...80's USA. Hip-hop culture starts to emerge in the ghettos. One of its features is home-made records used for DJ-ing and scratching to rap, the spoken word expressing the rough side of street life. ...2001, Chisinau, Moldova. A bunch of drunken scumbags attacks a young attractive lady walking home from a party. A police investigation is begun. Instead of being helped, she is charged with giving false evidence. ...2003, The Netherlands, Jan van Eyck Academie. The girl in question renders this story into comic strips. Fascinated by the ability of hip-hoppers to make a point out of their personal stories, she commissions D. Riba to write a few tracks, based on her story to complement the visuals, creating a kind of Hip-Hop Musical. The idea to put the music "on bones", X-ray photos of her own scull made after the accident, is realized on the exclusive edition. ...2004 Zürich. "Hip Hop On Bones" is smuggled into the cellar called BEVOR KAPUTT. Lucia Macari & Dimitri Riba Francisco Valdés Reagan, 1973 This is an animation project based on the film classic "The Exorcist", starring Linda Blair as Regan, a devil possessed teenage girl. The original sequences were re-edited and handdrawn frame-by-frame, creating animation cells from more than 400 pictures. The work, already depicting the bizarre act of exorcism, addresses issues of copyrights and reenactment, and attempts to comment on the disparity between blockbuster Hollywood entertainment and low budget, arcane cinematic techniques. As an installation, the project was specific to Santiago; the title "Reagan, 1973", alludes to the year when both the film was released in the U.S., and the military coup, led by General Pinochet, took place in my home country of Chile. More than giving an account of historical facts, the work speaks of my personal experience and a number of surrounding sensations during that period, including the encroaching North American cultural presence in the country and the surreptitious position it has played in its political history. The certain inconvenience of the title (Nixon was president in 1973, not Reagan) points to the gap between what Chileans experienced as the real event and the sense we made of it afterwards (Francisco Valdés). Exhibition: 26.11.2004 Opening hours: from 6 pm - open end BEVOR KAPUTT Zurlindenstrasse 186 (Keller) 8003 Zürich Telefon 043 243 84 00 Email bevorkaputt@yahoo.com |
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