Radical Software Group, RSG-Black-1 (Black Hawk Down)
Saturday April 25
9:00-10:30pm
The Contact Zone
R Kelly cross-pollinates the baroque with contemporary hip-hop. Michael Bell Smith collapses time using the lyrical presence of Kelly’s narratives. The Radical Software Group collaborates in the manipulation of representation and history, and Kevin Jerome Everson consciously re-distributes the authority of authenticity to the inheritors of cultural memory. They all meet at the boundaries of the Contact Zone- the terrain of non-linear, inter-cultural, and cross-disciplinary exchange, deconstruction and re-mixing. Black America— meets White America— in the hills of Hollywood – on the porches of small town Virginia— up against the fists of masculinity— and the pride of chilvary— crunking with Canadian diaspora—and beat boxing with the echoes of Africa. The complexity of identity and orality in North America is sampled, reincarnated and mis-duplicated by the four turntables of the Contact Zone Crew.
Kevin Jerome Everson, The Reverend E. Randall T. Osborn, First Cousin | 2007 | 3:30mins | 16mm/DV | USA
Kevin Jerome Everson, According to… | 2007 | 8:30mins | 16mm/DV | USA
Kevin Jerome Everson, Undefeated | 2008 | 1:30mins | 16mm/DV | USA
Radical Software Group, RSG-Black-1 (Black Hawk Down) | 2005 | 22:00mins | BetaSP | USA
Intermission
Wayde Compton and Jason De Couto, Contact Zone Crew | 2008 | 30:00mins | Turntable Poetry Project | Canada
R Kelly, Trapped in the Closet chapters 1-12 SING ALONG! | 2005 | 40:00mins | DVD | USA
Michael Bell Smith, Chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet Synced and Played Simultaneously | 2005 | 4:22mins | Beta SP | USA
program running time: 1:50:00