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http://www.redbull.co.nz/cs/Satellite/en_NZ/Video/subsim-the-wall-video-021243080767535

What contemporary artists should aspire to

All those that have seen this on youtube or the news or even better; have directly experienced or have been involved in a flash mob will have seen the crowds responses. I don't think I've seen one where a crowd has expressed negative responses. You can actually see people joining in or smiling or laughing and then when the whole performance is over they applause... but don't let me taint the experience with words, here are a few examples:

In Antwerp

New York

London

and more locally

The title above says what artists should aspire to; I guess what I mean by that isn't just pleasing the public but getting on that wavelength that touches on the universal. Paul Rand puts it in a really good way when he says:

Bromidic (made common through over use) advertising catering to [the bad taste of the man in the street] merely perpetuates that mediocrity and denies him the most easily accessible means of aesthetic development.

Our cultural gateway isn't the gallery or the museum anymore but the "easily accessible" - among the people.

Lol I've just become a fan

Some of my work from My Alias exhibition http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/4064983/Artworks-investigate-covered-faces . Will  put up more images of works that I'm doing now.

Getting Started

Finally got some time to do some work. Excited and pumped, got my images, got my music, got my materials and ready to rock and roll. At the moment I have been looking at cigarette packets and their layout as well as its obvious references to consumer culture as well as mass production.

"..We live in a world of representations, wherein our societies, other people, even our own identities, are continually constructed, negotiated and played back to us through a range of representational systems. The task of the artist is to interrupt the flow of representations, to diagnose and to reveal its mechanisms, and thereby play a part in liberating people (ourselves included) from a range of institutions - tangible and intangible - which increasingly control our lives." (Italics mine)


I'ts also a personal problem in the sense that it somehow affects us in an emotional and instinctive way. I recently was involved in a sales company and the thing that struck me the most out of all the things said during training was that it was important to "build up a need" for said product. I quit the next day.