Don’t Push Me: A Hip-Hop Urbanist Manifesto

In her companion publication to the 2014 group exhibition“Ruffneck Constructivists,” the show’s curator,Kara Walker, lays down a radical manifesto for urbanintervention. Just months before Ferguson2 and a yearbefore Baltimore3, Walker proposes her theory throughwhich installation artists (along with architects anddesigners by extension) can become “defiant shapersof environments.”4 The invocation and juxtapositionof the terms hip-hop and architecture in the intro to hermanifesto is particularly remarkable given the show’sexclusive assembly of visual and installation artists.

Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne

ISBN
978-1-944214-08-1