Talk:Exploding Plastic Inevitable

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"In the first phase of his collaboration with the Velvet Underground (one of whose members, John Cale, had worked extensively with Young),29 Warhol would exacerbate the dialectic put into play within his Lincoln Center installation, increasing the aggressive negation of popular spectacle even as his promotion of a rock group tied him to it all the more completely. Initially entitled Andy Warhol’s Up-Tight, the performance made its now infamous debut at a dinner for the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry held at Delmonico’s Hotel on January 13, 1966. In that incarnation, in which Warhol screened several of his films before appearing on stage with the Velvet Underground, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, and Malanga, the incessant, multimedia barrage of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable had not yet been fully implemented. Instead, once the concert began the audience found themselves subjected to the guerrillatype assaults of filmmaker Barbara Rubin, who, with the help of Jonas Mekas, thrust flood lights and running movie cameras into their faces. Careening from table to table, Rubin and Mekas filmed the hapless psychiatrists’ responses to blunt and embarrassing sexual questions such as “Does he eat you out?” or “Is his penis big enough?” and aggressively stated interjections like “You’re making too much noise.”30" --Branden W. Joseph, "'My Mind Split Open': Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable"; Grey Room 08, Summer 2002, p. 87. ~ trialsanderrors 02:48, 30 October 2006 (UTC)