R.I.P. Germain discusses cultural specificity in art and transforming galleries into more inclusive spaces
: how can art allow human beings to live together sustainably and in relation with one another? In this series, Chinese-Canadianspeaks to artists working across performance and film about the role of storytelling in their practices and about creating work that allows us to come together in a world that tries its very best to keep us apart.is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is committed to interrogating oppressive power structures and their impact on Black life.
KW: So storytelling is a way to individualise, to bridge the gap between people and their varied experiences? “I feel a lot of people have their egos and pride tied to their opinions. There’s a lack of elasticity to evolving your opinion” – R.I.P. GermainRG: I’m a maximalist, so my installations usually have multiple, complicated components. I work on each component separately and I don’t really decide the composition until I get into the space. I then instinctively navigate the space based on what I feel – on how the objects hold themselves together.
RG: Exactly. The objects are usually just vessels for a different discussion. I’m hardly ever using an object as it exists. It’s like I’m a grime bootlegger, taking something that exists and remixing it, manipulating it in a way that I want it to look and feel. It’s like a mutation, in a conceptual sense, through meaning-making.
KW: Wow, intense. Once you open yourself up to different frequencies, you open yourself up to what normally would be passed off as impossible, or at the very least implausible ... kind of the opposite of how we are in London.
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