Reflection: Exploding Plastic Inevitable
I loved working on this project. In all honesty, I always kind of thought Andy Warhol was kind of corny, but after researching the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI), I have a newfound appreciation. The EPI was an artist collective, something I've been considering organizing myself lately. This overload of information — movies, live music, pop records, strobe lights, colored lights — sounds like a truly immersive and mild-altering experience, especially as an audience member of the 1960s, when all you really had was your tiny home television screen.
Another thing that really shocked me during my research, and made me realize I might relate to Warhol more than I thought, was that I accidentally copied/referenced three separate lesser-known works of his that I'd never seen before in my art classes this term. I was shocked, and I decided that if I appreciate my own work then I must appreciate Andy's as well.
These shows were also a lot more shocking/explicit than I realized — live sex scenes, drag shows! This really would be a shock to see, even in 2023. How avant-garde.
I learned so much from your presentation! It really helped me understand the full extent of how revolutionary this would have been when you described all of the different moving parts of sound, lights, film playing, multiple records playing. It's really cool that they were able to create a fully immersive new reality, and I'm so bummed that I wasn't alive to go see one of these shows while they were still happening!!
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