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WHAT THE PLOP?
The beginning of a new era?
... or the end of Art as we know it?
Plop Art is much more than just art - it's about blending Pop Art thinking, Dadaist attitude, digital art production, technological critique, environmental conservation and alternative economics.
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Born on the Canadian west coast in 2020, this artistic movement re-appropriates the term "Plop" to describe its creative approach infused with more novel philosophies than meets the eye.
The Plop Art philosophy is both cultural and counter-cultural. A playground of artistic improvisation, intuition, and immediacy, but also a critique of an over-engineered technological world. As an experimental fusion between technology and creativity, much insight is revealed by the Plop Art Manifesto.
This Plop Art movement does not sell artwork through e-commerce - instead, it involves a system where buying and re-selling art happens within a physical art gallery or artistic store. By attracting people, off their devices, into galleries and creative stores, Plop Art intends to build a new local community spirit near you, reinforcing the art galleries' identity as cultural epicenters.
The term Plop Art was initally coined in the late sixties as an architectural insult, a pejorative term about public art plonked (or "plopped") in front of government or corporate buildings, often lacking in deep meaning or good taste. Today's new movement, re-born in 2020, aims to bring Plop Art to individuals, making it easily accessible for personal ownership... while blurring the lines between meaning and good taste, between concept and aesthetics, between commerce and creation.
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The new Plop Art movement turns the purchase of an artwork into a personal statement about deep creativity, economic alternatives, community building, ecological participation and a critique of the potential and dangers of ubiquitous technology.
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This new emergence of Plop Art suddenly becomes an expression of our Age of Information, a perfect analogy for our times where intermingle techno-consumerism, social media addiction, information overload, fake news, inaccessible fine art, volatile alt-currencies and environmental anxiety.
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