From February 23–April 7, 2013 Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s is
the first exhibition to explore the thriving underground of Washington,
D.C. during the 1980s, giving visual form to the raucous energy of
graffiti, Go-Go music, and a world-renowned punk and hardcore scene.
The exhibition explores the visual
culture of the “other D.C.,” demonstrating its place in the history of
street art as well as that of America’s capital city. In the midst of
notorious problems with drugs and corruption, D.C. gave birth to an
infectious visual culture captured in the exhibition through Globe
posters, graffiti, graphic art, archival photographs, and ephemera. Pump Me Up tells
a local history from a local point of view—the graffiti historian Roger
Gastman—while providing a framework for the contemporary surge of
interest in street art and underground graphics. In
conjunction with the exhibit “The Legend of COOL ‘DISCO’ DAN,” a
90-minute documentary about the storied local graffiti writer, will be
released in tandem with the exhibition. The film, produced in
collaboration with Joseph Pattisall, is narrated by Henry Rollins and
features interviews with Chuck Brown, civil rights advocate Walter
Fauntroy, Marion Barry, and graffiti writers including GO-GO TONYA F and
Dan himself.
The exhibition is coordinated by Sarah Newman, curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran. For more information, visit http://www.corcoran.org/ exhibitions/pump-me-dc- subculture-1980s.
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