Huey Remixed is an ongoing project that collects and chronologically organises the appropriations of the iconic image of Huey P. Newton in a rattan chair.
This timeline is part of a larger research that addresses the role of ‘remix’ in art, design and visual culture. It looks at this remix not as a multiplicity of images, but as one image with multiple appearances that change over time.
The remix works like a living organism that goes through the stages of life; it is born, grows up, become mature, finds its place in life, fades away, dies and is reincarnated.
How has this image been appropriated, interpreted and given new meaning through time and space?
Jammie Holmes in his studio in Dallas with works Box Fan Heroes (2019) and Mama Raised Me (2020). Photo by Emery Davis, courtesy of the Library Street Collective, Detroit.
