{"id":257282,"date":"2023-08-31T18:52:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_event&p=257282"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:13:27","slug":"atliens-visit-planet-mars","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/atliens-visit-planet-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"ATLiens Visit Planet MARS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Villa Albertine is excited to open ELEVATE Public ART<\/a><\/span> Festival Celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop with ATLiens Visit Planet MARS<\/em>, an exhibition presenting the early origins of hip-hop in Atlanta and Marseille through the work of photographers Jean-Pierre Ma\u00e9ro and Shannon McCollum.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This photographic exhibition captures the early origins of Hip-Hop communities in two creative capitals\u2014Atlanta and Marseille. As Hip-Hop began to spread beyond New York and Los Angeles in the early 1990s, communities around the world began to claim it as their own, and with that agency, began to frame their own identities within the culture. In this exhibition, photographers Shannon McCollum and Jean-Pierre Ma\u00e9ro present rare access to the foundational artists, spaces, and moments of Hip-Hop in Marseille and Atlanta, respectively, that would help establish these cities as contemporary cultural capitals. Much like \u201cATLiens\u201d distinguish themselves within an Atlanta context and \u201cPlanet MARS\u201d is distinguishable from Marseille, Hip-Hop communities in these cities found ways to claim their own sense of self while laying the groundwork for generations of artists to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An event celebrating the exhibition opening will be held September 22 from 5-8pm at Chastain Arts Center and Gallery. Join us for a discussion with the artists and curators, as well as a DJ set with DJ Djel (Marseille) and Salah Ananse (Atlanta).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n