Exploding Plastic Inevitable
Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI) - initially Erupting Plastic Inevitable - was the title of a loose series of multimedia performances , happenings and light shows that the American pop art artist Andy Warhol in collaboration with the rock group The Velvet Underground and the singer Nico from the beginning Organized from 1966 to mid-1967.
The confused audience was made insecure with a veritable bombardment of screaming guitar amplifiers , pounding drum attacks and driving bass rhythms, furthermore dazzled with twitching stroboscopic flashes and unsettled with light effects and psychedelic slide and film projections to dance performances with a sadomasochistic touch. The most famous location for the cultural spectacle was the DOM in New York City .
Executing actors (among others)
- Lou Reed , John Cale , Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker , also known as The Velvet Underground known
- Gerard Malanga (photographer, artist and Warhol's assistant)
- Billy Name (photographer)
- Nico (model and singer)
- Ondine ( Factory member)
- Brigid Berlin alias Brigid Polk (actress and factory factory)
- Barbara Rubin (filmmaker and director)
- Edie Sedgwick (actress and style icon of the 1960s)
- Ingrid Superstar (actress and dancer)
- Danny Williams (Factory electrician, responsible for the lighting effects)
- Mary Woronov (actress and dancer)
- Andy Warhol as himself
as well as various other Warhol superstars and members of his factory .
literature
- Victor Bockris , Gerard Malanga : Up-tight. The Story of The Velvet Underground . Cooper Square Press, 1983 (Reprint 2003), ISBN 0-8154-1285-1 . (English)
