Editor's Letter : Creative Collision
There’s a mash-up going on. Open has always been about ( in fact, that’s one of the reasons it began ) the fluidity of the arts genres and a bridge between the high arts and popular culture. How poetry is portrayed on telly; the fusion of art and fashion; film and music, and so on.
And what began as a trickle of collaborations and pair-ups has turned into a flood, so much so it’s hard to say that ‘art’ is just painting or poetry is simply concerned with words.
Now collaboration is King, creativity is Queen, and never before have either had such kudos.
The old barriers are being broken ( even the term ‘high’ arts doesn’t seem relevant any more ) as everyone can, and wants, to have a bite of the creative cherry.
Communications agency JAM take artistic, contemporary thinking to big brands, who are increasingly using visual artists to get their point across, we had a chat with CEO Jamie Anley.
Artist Stuart Semple has his very own Mash-Up coming up: he curates a group show looking at how a new generation makes sense of mass culture, and how this culture is changing. And at the Private View there won’t just be paintings on the walls, but a live performance and inter-active music video shoot. Open will get an exclusive peek …. More soon.
In November the Royal Academy hosts the first GSK Contemporary, a three month season exploring the links between the different art forms and media with events including not only exhibitions but film screenings, performance, theatre, music and even an Art Bar.
And the growing hub of creative classes can soon mingle at new member's bar Victory, aimed at poets, film-makers, writers, artists and the like who don't need money to join, just bags of personality and ideas. Creative Currency, if you will ( just wish that was the case for everything else, and there'd be no credit crunch.)
I could go on.
The point is that ‘art’ in all its many forms are in collision with each other and with mass culture. Who knows what will come crashing out?
Open will be there.
Lots of Love
Loma xxx
