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Anyone heard of him?

R.I.P. Germain
Dat Tyron Lookin' Yout (2020)

Part I
1 £70 Supreme bag
1 celeb doppelganger
0 - 1 guns
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10 - 20 blank - eyed strangers
Ego; machismo; morality
Compassion; dread

These are the ingredients for 'Dat Tyron Lookin' Yout', R.I.P. Germain's account of an attempted robbery and a forced reckoning with his own practice, priorities and moral limits.
R.I.P. Germain refuses to segregate artist from subject, from community, from audience. His work consciously obliterates those categories which allow us to passively partake in culture without responsibility. In this video, reflecting on the 15 minutes of escalating conflict, and 6 minutes of decompression, he invites you to ride the train with him, from Farringdon to West Hampstead, and confront what it means to live, work, perhaps to die, without the luxury of those distinctions.

Part II of Dat Tyron Lookin’ Yout, this visual essay, and the accompanying video presentation, make up the official, historical record of a fleeting crisis in the artist’s life. Images from R.I.P Germain’s research archive sit alongside lyrical reflections, in a work which functions as a discreet, emotional snapshot, the precarious closure of an unresolved conflict — physical and ethical — and an introduction to the argumentative modes used throughout his wider practice.
Words from Amelia Scott.

R.I.P. Germain - Dat Tyron Lookin' Yout (2020) (I/II)
Length - 30 minutes 20 seconds
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Starts about 54:40 on this video



Some good scholarly discussion of drill lyrics, although I had a few moments of 'what's going on here again...'
 
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i'm listening to this atm, background soundscape for an installation show in leeds (which i missed).
 
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R.I.P. Germain (b. 1988, Luton) is a conceptual artist and lecturer. His work primarily focuses on the inner and outer wars that pertain to the black male. He completed his BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Kingston University in 2011 and has lectured at Universität der Künste Berlin, University of Chicago Department of Visual Arts and University of Illinois. His debut show 'Gidi Up' opened in September 2018 at Peak in London and was commissioned by Arcadia Missa in November 2018 to provide a visual essay for their HTSF publication.
 
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i really like the style of that video essay, it's an interesting format, having a load of images and words up on screen while he talks about them in voiceover. sort of like a slideshow presentation i suppose, just feels quite a refreshing way to say certain things. he seems to me to occupy a similar space to dean blunt in terms of what he's saying, looking at black male culture, breaking it down, putting things next to one another that are often not.
 
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like this for example, the use of the st george flag, it's very similar to a dean blunt stageshow

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