november 27 - december 31, 2009

Exhibition opening & musical performances Friday, November 27th:

7pm David Dove/ Lucas Gorham 

8:30pm DJ Dre J, SUC Affiliated DJ 

Saturday, November 28th 1pm Talk by SUC special invited guest 

1:30-2:30 Screening of DJ Screw: The Untold Story 

Artists featured in the exhibition include: D. Denenge Akpem, Inge Hoonte, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Carlos Pozo, Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez, Odie Rynell Cash, Y.E.Torres, Carolina Vasquez 

Screwed Anthologies is a disjointed "exhibition" of performances, videos, sound art, and lectures that draw inspiration from the art of “screwed and chopped” music.  Screwed Anthologies moves beyond linear time to feature work by artists who frame time travel, sampling and appropriating, stopping and freezing time and pace to create new states of existence.  Based in Houston, Texas the home of screw music, Screwed Anthologies will challenge traditional ideas about art, its location, its practice and its curation. 

“Screwed and chopped” refers to a technique of remixing music that developed in the Houston hip-hop scene by DJ Screw in the 1990s. This is accomplished by slowing the tempo and applying techniques such as skipping beats, record scratching, stop-time, and effecting portions of the music to make a "chopped-up" version of the original. Screw music has grown a cult following around the world, and the music celebrates the slow, fantastic, ghetto and soulful. 

[view images from Screwed Anthologies]

[Screwed Anthologies in the Wire Magazine (March 2010)]

[DJ Screw interview]

[Screwed Up Records & Tapes ]

labotanica 2316 Elgin (at Dowling), Houston, TX 77004 

Hours: Saturday, 1pm- 5pm, and by appointment 

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David Dove & Lucas Gorham performing at Screwed Anthologies