Conversations | The street against Babylon: Urban avant-garde resistance
with Jane Dickson, FUTURA 2000, James Massiah, and Hans Ulrich Obrist
at Petit Palais, Paris
Friday, October 18, 5:30pm–6:30pm (Paris)

Hip-hop, graffiti, and dub poetry are artistic strategies born in part as a reaction to oppression and racism in Western megalopolises such as New York City in the 1970s. As tools of resistance and a means of artistic emancipation for people of color and the disenfranchised, this repertoire of actions in urban terrain stands in opposition to Babylon, the metaphorical repository of former colonial or coercive power erected as an asphalt fortress, which is thus haunted by its past. This discussion looks at the history of forms that, from clubs to city walls, have transformed the metropolis into a theater of poetic actions.

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