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Wheels of Steel @ Sushi Performance and Visual Art, August 17,18,19, 1999

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Wheels of Steel, was an experimental exposition that integrated world cultures with urban subcultures, presented almost entirely by way of performance.
Hip-hop performance at Sushi Performance and Visual Art
The event combined genres of dance, performance art, spoken word, street art, and music, which tirelessly advanced through nearly eight hours per day for three straight days.
B-boy Competition at Sushi Performance and Visual Art
Graffiti artists from all parts of California
and Great Britain
painted two trucks
on the street in front of the building.

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Each performance was timed and lighted to occur in a different location within the Sushi Performance and Visual Art theater. This created a sensorial push and pull of emotion for the audience, as well as, a literal movement from one part of the theater to the next.
British street artist painting a vintage jeep in front of Sushi Performance and Visual Art in San Diego
Punk bands, World Genres, Reggae, Hip-Hop, and solo acoustic variations of all kinds rocked Sushi, conjuring the spirits of the Re-incarnation building itself. With the music came the dance, from Aztec to B-boys and Girls.

hip-hop performance at sushi performance and visual art in san diego
World Music and Dance performance at Sushi Performance and Visual art in San Diego
This married nicely with the DJ competition that composed categories of mixing not commonly associated. 

underground hip-hop performance at sushi performance and visual art in san diego
Gaslamp Killer wins Wheels of Steel DJ competition in San Diego
Wheels of Steel was centered around this experimental competition and launched a number of artists careers.
Gaslamp Killer (then DJ Willow) won the competition by a landslide at the age of 16! He skipped school to compete and blew everyone's mind!
Gaslamp Killer wins Wheels of Steel DJ competition in San Diego
Wheels of Steel DJ competition in San Diego

Wheels of Steel at Sushi, examined multiplicity, collaboration, hybrid cultures, and new genres derived from urban street culture.
hip-hop performance at Sushi in the reincarnation building in san diego
Terry Matsuoka performing at Sushi Performance and Visual Art

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