How would you like your 15 minutes?
Today, the internet can provide numerous opportunities to create and express whenever, wherever and however you like! Whether you work with image, text or sound, experimentation is a key to changing the world as we know it.
By turning a camera on the audience or filming ‘celebrities’ in real-time is often seen as manufactured. The anonymity that follows for those involved was also predicted by Andy Warhol.
Whether anti-art or art, Dada [1916-23 and onwards] can be used as an example that inspired many more instances of creativity like Warhol’s.
Active creative expression can often provide a tangible cultural shift. Teddy Boys in the 1950’s reinvented the Edwardian Drainpipe trouser, to the style we know well as Skinny Jeans today. At the time, the high street witnessed a change in its youth culture.
Dada has also been alive and kicking since the explosion of Punk in the mid-1970’s. Thanks to the self belief in creative expression with a ‘do-it-yourself’ attitude from concept to completion, many of these bands are still performing today – taking a little more than the 15 minutes manufactured bands receive.
Being a creative often brings with it the pressures of listening to many opinions, different needs that can pull you in opposite directions, and above all, the final input and decision of your client. According to the ‘Andy Warhol’s People Factory’ documentary, Warhol’s decision to become an artist and filmmaker was influenced by a lack of criteria and a space to create.
As important as our many demands appear, Warhol demonstrated that being true to your self can bring with it a creative and cultural influence to last another 40 years.
Maybe you’re reading this with unfulfilled aspirations which come to mind. Could your work be the next Andy Warhol? Or is your iPhone App [10 Experimental Art Apps on the iPhone] the next new innovation to emerge? Maybe you’re looking for people to collaborate with to make it happen? Whatever you think, feel free to share below.
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