Transformation in the Trash-formation Era
By Tommaso Cartia
What is a Creative Being? And how does he/she interpret and embody the theme of transformation in this mass media culture we are living in? Artist Director of Creative Pois-On Tommaso Cartia and our host for the month of October, Digital Strategist, Beauty & Fitness Model and Executive Producer of Melange 2019, Mara De Los Santos, take us on a journey through the themes of creativity, imagination and transformation, starting from our childhood memories to making surprising connections with the so-called pop-pornographic aesthetic and phenomenon like Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus… in pure Creative Pois-On style.
“I’m very interested in understanding the topic of Transformation in its vast cultural spectrum and try to detect what kind of role does it play in today’s society. We are living in a re-posting mode of the post-modern world, where everything is actually a bland copy and a repetition of stalling iconographies, distortions and deformations of our pop culture. I believe that we are not in a transformative time, but in an involutive one, and that’s why we need to go back to the power of imagination and creativity, now more than ever, to trigger a real shift.
What if I tell you that I think that Kim Kardashian is actually, and aesthetic fact? Either you like it or not, it’s a statement of something and actually one of the culminations of a cycle of pop culture transformation that probably speaks volumes of the world we are living today…does the category of Aesthetic Beauty still stands or are we at the mercy of an Aesthetic of Cool, or of its subcategory, the Aesthetic of Trash? Are we living in the era of Trash-formation?”
Tommaso Cartia
For more of Tommaso’s thoughts and insights on this topic, please listen to the full Creative Being episode.
Ready, set, imagine…