“Young architects can change the world by not building buildings”
Virgil Abloh
okischa Altagracia Peralta is twerking in a paddling pool to the rhythm of cut-up panting sounds. The unmistakable ‘boom-ch-boom-chick’ is dembow, a reggaeton mutation that started in Jamaica in the late 1970s and spread like hot butter across the east coast of the US, finding its largest base in the Dominican Republic, Tokischa’s home. This is the music video for her track “Desacato Escolar”, art-directed around the titular theme of hating school. In other scenes, extras pose as hypersexualised teens grinding in a uniformed debauchery on a moving yellow school bus. Tokischa evocatively slurps on a lollipop and raps her Spanish-language lyrics about smoking weed and fucking the janitor, having “vagina fever”, and orchestrating
