13/06/2016
Text and photos: Promotion CEC Macaíba
Edition: Ariane Mondo – Ascom ISD
In the first half of 2016, the Science and Art Workshop of Science Education Center (CEC), Macaíba (RN) unit, developed with the students a work focused on Hip Hop culture, reflecting on this cultural expression and carrying out a survey of the problems encountered in their communities. In the classes, the aesthetics present in graffiti were discussed and gender inequality was also deconstructed.
The students got to know the origin of Hip Hop culture, its emergence in the suburbs of the USA with representations of the reality of minorities located in slums and marginalized districts because they have a majority of the black population. The Workshop's proposal emphasizes that the arts serve as a tool of expression, denunciation and protest, through “Rap” and “Hip Hop” music, the “Break” dance style and the painting represented by graffiti.
The students brought up topics such as periphery, violence, ostentation and drugs, which are typical complaints of Hip Hop songs. They also worked on the movement that expresses all of this through art, uniting music, speeches/poetry, dance and graffiti. Hip Hop culture is a hybrid and contemporary cultural and artistic manifestation.
To help with the design of the graffiti panels, social themes characteristic of the outskirts were established, raising with the students the problems encountered in their communities to produce a stencil reusing radiographs that symbolize in images what was brought in the musical composition. The song “Norte, Nordeste me clothes” by the artist from Ceará, RAPadura XC, was approached, which mixes embolada with hip hop. Through the lyrics, the students were able to reflect on what they themselves would like to denounce about their reality, in addition to addressing their pride in being from the Northeast and the need to maintain their roots. The students made a sketch/project of an art to compose the graffiti panel and the representations brought, in general, themes such as violence, lack of sanitation in the streets and prevention against the dengue mosquito.
