– Ya Get Me?
YA GET ME? 2003
Saturday 22 November 2003, 2pm
The Electric Cinema, 191 Portobello Rd, London W11
Free event. Electric Cinema T 020 7908 96. Underground: Ladbroke Grove
Artist David Blandy worked with young people from the Avenues Youth Project in Queen’s Park, Westminster to investigate underground street language. They produced a short documentary film Ya Get Me? and a street slang dictionary that looked at hip-hop phrases, rhyming slang, new inventions – words outsiders don’t understand.
The film was premiered at the Electric Cinema in Notting Hill.
Backslang is an Artangel Interaction project developed in response to the fight codes that wrestlers follow in Cameron Jamie’s BB.
The Avenues Youth Project in Queen’s Park, London, offers club activities and learning opportunities in music, dance, drama and new technologies to local young people aged between 13 and 21 years old.
David Blandy’s selected group exhibitions in 2003 include Nothing Special at FACT Liverpool, Family Business at PM Gallery, London, and the LUX Open at the Royal College of Art, London. Blandy was a winner of the Beck’s Student Prize for Film and Video at the ICA in 2002.
