What is originality?

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation - Herman Melville

What constitutes as great art, is it only the originals

Joseph Campbell and the monomyth

The hero with a thousand faces, pg.23

The seven basic plots theory

The culture of the copy - Hillel Schwartz

How does this change the way we think about our own work?

Cultural appropriation, damaging act, one culture being used by another

-black face, minstrel - attention to power imbalances that recall colonial oppression

Cultural exchange, the mutual sharing of information, usually cultural, for the purpose of improving understanding between them

Task:

Find a thing and remix/rework/reinvent it