David LaChapelle / Public EnemyFriday May 29, 2009 - 20:30
Maison Pop' de Montreuil
FREE ENTRY En contrepoint à l’exposition rétrospective David Lachapelle qui s’achève le 31 Mai 2009 à la Monnaie de Paris, cette séance propose de revoir son film culte « Rize », précédé de la bombe visuelle « Know Your Enemy » de Art Jones, esquissant une histoire positive et rebelle, de l’alliance rageuse et créatrice du documentaire d’artiste avec la contre-culture africaine-américaine.
Rize
de David Lachapelle (2005, 1h24)
 Rize is an extraordinary film of dance, signed David LaChapelle,
celebrates photographer, around the krump, a dance frantic and
virtuoso, resulting from the Afro-américaine community of South Central
in Los Angeles, and emerged in answer to the consecutive racial riots
with the business Rodney King. Revealing an attractive process of
sublimation of the social and racial alienation of the young people of
the black ghettos, which have for only weapon only their risen bodies,
LaChapelle delivers with Rize its masterpiece, offering the single
chance to us to attend the constitution of this artistic and political
counter-culture. The artist magnifie with humour and pleasure, and of
its inimitable key, their amazing dance, while being made sensitive
documentarist, telling the tribulations of Clowns and Krumpers,
which clash at the time of battle zones, revealing the krump, beyond
vibratile choreography, of an amazing vitality, with the limit of the
hallucination, like a formidable human comedy.
  
Preceded by
Know your Enemy
by Art Jones (1991, 26 min)
France Premiere
Between rough poetry, sophisticated clip, cinematographic test and
video art, the artists of the black diaspora in the United States, put
in scene in the Eighties a new culture of the image, born from an
explosive alliance with urban musical subcultures. With the visual bomb
that is Know your Enemy, Art Jones mixes as
a magician the popular culture, the History, the diversion of images,
the farmhouses mediae to tell the epopee of the mythical group of rap
protestor Public enemy and the fights of the black movements in the
United States since the Sixties. With the image of the sound of Public Enemy,
it video is made consumed art of the sampling and furious recycling,
marking the resistance of the artists blacks against the racism of the
american company. Art Jones received Music Week' S Creative and Design
Award in 2002 and 2003 and collaborated with many groups and artists
like Coldplay, REM, Franz Ferdinand, Jane' S Addiction, MUSE,
Offspring, Kylie and The Raconteurs, inter alia.
  
Curators and texts : Kantuta Quirós & Aliocha Imhoff / le peuple qui manque
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