Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable 1966

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Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable is also the title of an 18-minute film by Ronald Nameth with recordings from one week of performances of the shows which were filmed at Poor Richard's nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966.

The Exploding Plastic Inevitable (originally known as the Erupting Plastic Inevitable and later known as Plastic Inevitable or EPI), was a series of multimedia gesamtkunstwerk events organized by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey in 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by the Velvet Underground and Nico, screenings of Warhol's films, such as Eat, and dancing and mime performance art by regulars of Warhol's Factory, especially Mary Woronov and Gerard Malanga.

The events were inspired by New York artist Bobb Goldsteinn, who had coined the term "multimedia" to describe his 1965 "lightworks".

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