Creator at La Réunion: a challenge?
The island is both source of inspiration and challenges for artists. In this article, I share with you what it means to me to be artist in La Réunion.
An island, a creative energy Volcanic
The Meeting is a territory contrasts and blending. It's a living soil where identities intertwine and sometimes intertwine. Here, Creole culture Naturally feeds the daily.
Nature, omnipresent, most certainly influences my way of composing and creating. It is this same nature that inspired Boris Gamaleya, Jean Albany but also Léon Dierx, Charles Beaudelaire And much more.
Connected to all this, I create in echo with my environment, to vibrate an invisible wire in Infinite moment.
The limits of insularity
But to create in La Réunion is also to do with Insularity. Being away from major cultural capitals And it's not the simplest. Traveling far to shoot, and meet other artists, shipping costs for access to equipment, all this requires more effort, more organisational and Cost more.
Sometimes you can feel a little margin, despite the quality of what we produce. Then we have toincrease creativity to exist, make his voice heard.
A living local scene... but fragile
The artistic scene of the meeting full of talents, initiatives and desires. But for the artists alternative, spaces of expression are rare. There is few places dedicated to the dissemination of projects underground or experimental.
On the side MediaApart from a few exceptions, the alternative scene is often absent. This complicates the construction of an on-site career, and sometimes pushes Exile.
Even if Internet has changed the deal. With social networks, streaming platforms or YouTube videos, you can disseminate our work Local but as well beyond the island. What makes it one valuable tool for artists independent.
Transforming stress into force
Creating at La Réunion is also learn to be undertaken With what we have. We become inventive, resourceful. We compose with limited resources, with plug in instead of hardware for example. This constraint becomes a force. It promotes originality, authenticity and forces you to look for your own path.
Insularity becomes an asset, If we sharpen this different look, this singular way of feeling the world and expressing it.
Still in trouble
Being an artist at La Réunion is how to transform constraints of Insularity in creative energy, while fully part of the The whole world.
And if you want support Island artists, think Physical support (CD, vinyl), Give yourself a T-shirt and above all, Come live!
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