R.I.P. Germain

Dat Tyron Lookin’ Yout (2020)

26/09/2020 - 27/09/2020

A one-night performance of a visual essay followed by a day of two-way live-streaming from a virtual booth

Commissioned by ASP Fair for its Reading & Performance Livestreams event as part of ASP Fair VI

Dat Tyron Lookin’ Yout (2020) was live-streamed and archived on ASP Fair’s website

R.I.P. Germain

Dat Tyron Lookin’ Yout (2020)

Part I

1 £70 Supreme bag

1 celeb doppelgänger

0-1 guns

R.I.P. Germain

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.

Length - 30 minutes 20 seconds

Click the link below to watch the performance from the ASP Fair VI Reading & Performance livestream. The first play-through and premiere of Dat Tyron Lookin’ Yout (I) starts at 54 minutes 15 seconds.

R.I.P. Germain - Dat Tyron Lookin’ Yout (I) (2020) (ASP Fair VI Reading & Performance Livestream)

Dat Tyron Lookin’ Yout (II), 2020, visual essay