Inspirations and Background.

As you have probably already commented on, I seem to have run dry of clever entry titles. Who knows, by the end of writing this I may have managed to come up with something so clever and witty that the post will be irrelevant.

Onto the point. We have been making a real attempt to not only come up with ideas for 'people will watch/read/buy anything' but also looking into other practitioners, groups, or artists who have attempted a simalar view. It would appear that we are not alone in the questioning of what people view as entertainment. Two people who we really feel will go a long way into our inspirations are Guy Debord, and John Cage. We currently have an entry posted about Reality tv, which goes on to talk about John Cage. Cage really is someone who we feel to be very relevant to our research, he beleived that life itself is art, and that all it needs around it is a simple frame. This is something that we feel we would like to at least touch upon with our project. Obviously this does complicate the whole ideas process, as instead of narrowing down what we are doing, we just seem to be adding to it.

Guy Debord unfortunately offers us no answers either. We are just as interested in his work, meaning we have a real mishmash of ideas and inspirations to work with here. Debord's most relevant theory to our project specifically is his idea of creating films in which nothing happens. This, although very difficult to research and find out about, is something that we really want to play with in our production. It has definitely fueled our discussions on the project at the very least anyway.

Now we just have the simple task of figuring out how to present a minimilistic-Cage-Debord-reality tv driven-performative society inspired, piece about Nothing..
Fun times.