What is a Food Desert?
Using the poetry and commentary of Kuumba Lynx (a Chicago-based hip hop coalition) this sound art piece investigates how institutional disinvestments in Chicago's South Side communities have affected its residents' nutritional health.
2015 / Justin Zullo / TCF, USA
Using the poetry and commentary of Kuumba Lynx (a Chicago-based hip hop coalition) this sound art piece investigates how institutional disinvestments in Chicago's South Side communities have affected its residents' nutritional health.
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Justin Zullo is a Chicago-based sound artist, hip hop music producer, and teaching artist. Currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University, his work examines the cross- pollination of embodied practice, political economy, and knowledge production that undergirds Chicago hip hop culture.
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