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Kipp Normand
24/25
Artist/Historian Kipp Normand is a scavenger and an obsessive collector. He searches back streets and alleys, junk stores and abandoned buildings looking for clues to explain the mysteries of our world. Normand finds stories in discarded things – stories about all of us; our dreams, our visions and our shared history.
Normand’s practice is a physical and conceptual investigation into the power of objects and images as narrative device. Inspired by the Dada traditions of assemblage, collage, construction and performance, he employs the acts of appropriation, reuse, and recontextualization to explore contemporary perceptions of time, community, and memory.
The All Consuming Fire | Found Object Construction | 4ft. x 8ft. x 3ft.
The All Consuming Fire, detail
“The stories we love make us who we are. They form the background for the way we view the world and how to live in it. They are the spark for my creative fire. I like the complicated stories - plot twists, flawed characters, unresolved crisis. Because life is like that, it really is. So many of the stories I loved as a child come from the Bible. Now I am not so young and the stories are still there. They haven’t changed, but I have. I still love them, though not in the same way. The RSA seminar is all about engaging with the stories. To revisit them with new questions, viewpoints and experiences; to hear how they still speak to all of us. This is a wonderful thing - this creative fire; and like Moses we should turn and look at it.”
