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Street Talk: A Dictionary In Progress
As part of the Backslang, Blandy produced a printed manuscript which was compiled and edited with the young people he was working with at The Avenues Youth Project. Street Talk can be seen as the beginning of a constantly mutating document, capturing the ever-changing slang used by young people.
Compiled and edited by
David Blandy
Wayne Louis
Kusu Biti
Shauna Davis
Leon Emmanuel
Peter Emmanuel
Linda Ibrahim
Kamara Lionel
Daniel Registe
Continue to view the full manuscript
Street Talk: A Dictionary in Progress is also available as a download below.
David Blandy
British artist David Blandy first worked with Artangel on Backslang in 2003, followed by Radio Nights in 2005. In 2013 he made the Open Longlist.
David Blandy (b. 1976) uses video, performance and comics to address identity formation and its relationship to popular culture. Blandy studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art (1995-98) then the Slade School of Fine Art (2001-3). He has exhibited at venues nationally and worldwide such as Bloomberg Space, London, UK; The Exchange, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK; Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; The Baltic, Gateshead; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Spike Island, Bristol; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany; MoMA PS1, New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China.
He is represented by Seventeen Gallery and his films are distributed by LUX.
Images: (above) David Blandy at Iaspis; (left) David Blandy at BBC Radio 1Xtra.
Who made this possible?
Credits
Backslang was made in collaboration with the Avenues Youth Project in Queens Park, London.
Artangel is generously supported by Arts Council England and the private patronage of The Artangel International Circle, Special Angels, Guardian Angels and The Company of Angels.
