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Akeem Smith

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Brooklyn-born, Waterhouse-raised multimedia artist and archivist whose exhibitions, including 'No Gyal Can Test' (2020) and 'Soundclash', reassembled photographs and video passed down from the Ouch Crew community that raised him to build a visual record of 1990s-2000s Kingston dancehall style and street-party culture.

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Confidence: Well supported
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Akeem Smith Builds an Experimental Archive of Jamaican Dancehall

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In stories

Story · ProbableThe crew era: Black Roses to Ouch

From a Waterhouse dance troupe to a fashion collective archived in art museums, Jamaica's street-dance crews built a lineage of their own.

Story · ProbableThe video light and the floss

When the camera came on, the dance began: how a handful of videographers turned being seen into the point of the party.