Performance/Installation/Sculpture + Collages
Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
2015
Informing the basis of this project is Jermaine Dupri's career, as a mainstream radio hip-hop producer in the late nineties and early two-thousands, which catapulted the stardom of several North American tween (10-12 year old) rappers including Lil Bow Wow and Kris Kross.
Jermaine Dupri Playlist assembles five tween (10 to 12 year old) rappers for the formation of a hip-hop/hip-pop troupe in preparation for a one time performance/concert; performed in a small bedroom. Posing the question: what if tween rappers were born out of stolen gold spilled around the "Americas" and throughout the African diaspora?
Sorting through footage some of the audience members captured during the live performance of Jermaine Dupri Playlist, I found a kid recording the performance with a prop camera made out of an empty black gas gallon. The additional Collages are moments that allude to that recording/or the question "what would this imaginary/multi-dimensional footage look like?"
http://clocktower.org/radio/player/series/12890/item/43
Project executed as part of The Ghetto Biennale.
