Research Topic: Can creative acts be rebellious when rebellion has become canonised in art, design and media histories? What would a contemporary creative rebellion look like?
I have chosen to look into this particular research topic as a way to further critically analyse the evolution of art movements and to gain a deeper understanding of the significance of rebellion. From my studies in Narratives of Modernity and Beyond Modernities, I have gained an understanding of how the emergence of something new is often in rebellion to the norm in those times. In this project, I hope to integrate the knowledge I have gained from my classes in COFA and to utilise it to create a successful meaningful poster.
Last semester in Narratives of Modernity, we explored the many different art movements that often emerged in rebellion to the conventional art styles, ways of thinking and the understanding of the world. To rebel against these norms was paramount to pursue new mediums, styles, renew the relationship between art, people and their surroundings.
Currently in Beyond Modernities, we are studying subcultures that exist as a resistance to the mainstream, rebelling against the norm through their defining styles, taste in music, their attitude towards the world, the way they spend their spare time (leisure), etc. What was particularly interesting about the emergence of these subcultures was that overtime the styles from these subcultures eventually lost their shock effect, and rather became a new product in the market, being easily accessible to the public. Thus, in short, to rebel is to defy the mass, but if the mass adopt the same behavioural and stylistic attributes of a rebel, then a rebel no longer exists.
The emergence of subcultures and "new" art movements are often considered to develop in a cycle. At first, it appears unique and different, but then it eventually becomes enveloped by the mass.
So, in the understanding of how acts of rebellion have been standardised or new acts of rebellion will eventually be standardised, creative acts, in today's society, will not be considered as rebellious. And yes, it is because it had been canonised in art, design and media in the past. To some extent, the outburst of something new that appears shocking and out of the norm is expected nowadays, especially in a time, where the discovery of something new, something better, more spectacular is the driving force of today's society.
In a society, where everyone considers themselves an individual, different from amongst the rest, whether it is through style, way of thinking, skills, etc. we are all technically rebels. My generation has been brought up to believe that we are our own person, that all of us are different, that we are all special and have something that only we, as individuals, can bring into the world.
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