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Jayson Scott Musson
Biography
In writing, performance and visual art that incisively satirizes and confuses pop culture and the art world, Jayson Scott Musson provokes the boundaries that define cultural stereotypes.
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Musson's most well-known project is Hennessy Youngman, a character who hosts an episodic Internet series, Art Thoughtz, in which he pits hip-hop and art world idioms against each other in a dual parody of cultural clichés.
Musson's consideration of a public extends beyond the confines of art institutions, deliberately entering the open arenas of mass media. Engaging hybrid media and contexts, Musson considers writing to be the root of his creative output, providing him with a springboard from which to translate personal observations into public expressions.
A major theme of Musson's is African-American social identity, recognizing "blackness" as a role conferred by a history of discrimination. Musson inhabits certain racial stereotypes in order to displace them a