Double 6
Performance with R.I.P. Germain at former courtroom at Leeds Town Hall
Poor Image Projects 8, Index Festival (2019)
’Unfolding as a one-night performance in the former courtroom of Leeds Town Hall, Double 6 takes conjunctures of race, class and British popular culture to consider the wider political and social value of Black life under the microscope of public courts of opinion. The work utilises the context and architecture of the courtroom to present a combination of textiles, painting, music and performance.
A series of hand-painted banners are displayed around the courtroom, alongside a speaker set-up installed, which plays a montage of music throughout the space that samples and references various musicians, genres and time periods.
Double 6 reflects on linguistic and performative creativity, to explore the combined roles of the canon of Black musical tradition, sports and entertainment in relation to how we understand conceptions of race in the context of a British political and social discourse. The work attempts to rationalise and question economic and social structures of domination, oppression, spectacle and the liberatory potential in cultural production that embodies notions of aspiration, wealth, love and death.’
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