CHRIS FREMANTLE

“I’ve always been a little suspect of that term in the art world – well, because the people typically involved in the art world come from a culture  that is not one of failure. And black people have seemed to be failing for many, many years. not of their own intention, obviously. I can get ignorance – you don’t know something, or you can’t know something. But failure? It was weird when I first started hearing this term thrown around. Why would anyone be interested in failure? But I realized some people are; they maybe think they are inoculated from failure. I guess I was intimidated by it. It’s something I have been avoiding all my life. Why would I want to deal with this shit? I mean, I’m already dealing with this shit. Why would I want to make it into an academic kind of thing? You know what I’m saying?” p9