Do Drugs Make You More Creative?
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Uploaded by sprivard on Oct 5, 2008
Installation project, 2008. An old film projector presents this video on loop in a classroom setting. Do drugs make you more creative? There are strong "objective" and "subjective" opinions in this debate, so this has been reflected in the form and content of the work:
The setting evokes the experience of watching an educational, anti-drug propaganda film, full of "objective" facts. In contrast, the actual visual content is abstract and reminiscent of the "subjective" experience of drugs.
The quote at the beginning is by Victor Hugo:
«Pourquoi donc faites-vous des prêtres, quand vous en avez parmi vous?»
Which roughly means:
"Why do you need to ordain priests (i.e. ordain people with a supposed connection to god), when you already have some among you (i.e. artists, the real priests, who have a natural connection to god/inspiration.)
Bibliography
Kuhn, Cynthia & Wilkie Wilson. "Medicinal Muse." Salon. com August 9th, 2000. March 27th, 2008.
Bender, Eve. "Do Psychiatric Drugs Dampen Artists' Creativity?" Psychiatric News Online January 5, 2007. March 27th, 2008.
Kain, Debra. "Were Drugs or Disease the Muse Behind These Famous Artists?" Medical News Today November 24th 2005. March 27th, 2008.
Music
Ghosts I-IV, Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor
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@himynamesfather Yes experience is required to create something with artistic value.
But people say that drugs make you more creative because they allow you to momentarily view the world through completely new eyes, with a new take on old ideas. All of a sudden, the concept of loss and dispair that you have been trying to convey in a song becomes startlingly clear and a new method expressing love or hate in images presents itself, even though it's beeen in front of you the whole time.
Amarkcalledme 11 months ago
creativity comes from experience, so the more you experience the more inspiration you can draw from.
himynamesfather 1 year ago
is that a serious question or retorical? yes!
ryanaustin89 1 year ago
@xpurity666 i wish you could talk to my friends...We're in a band together, and I'm the only one who isn't a metalhead
KlarenStandUp 1 year ago
i was a musically narrow-minded metal head, (i only listened to metal) until i smoked weed and now I listen to everything. And i went from writing only cheesy metal songs to all different types of songs. So i desagree with this video's theory. LOOK AT THE BEATLES BEFORE AND AFTER DRUGS
xpurity666 1 year ago
Incredible.
bwiseeeee 2 years ago
This is helpful. Thank you.
newmantopia 2 years ago 2