May 16, 2019
With Floor is Lava, and A Therapy Session with Myself on stage and Ps in a Pod hitting the “new TV” and countless films on the topic, “The Millennial” is becoming the new prevailing demographic in arts & entertainment
We spoke with one Millennial and one Gen Xer about the new audience and artist adding to the theatrical mosaic.
Travis Martin from “A Therapy Session with Myself” on himself:
I classify myself an actor, a writer, a director, and editor with a self-published book, Lion’s Heaven. Along with acting credits in plays, shorts, and an indie film, I have written, directed, and edited two shorts, The Resident and Afterthought. Since I have a speech and language difficulty, I like exploring ideas of what can be shown and not spoken, what we don’t or can’t say to one another, and the things that cannot be described in words.
However, I don’t like to classify myself as an artist, and here’s why: to me, the terms artist and art are words that we made in order to perceive a concept that is too broad for our understanding. The word art is like the words life, death, love, and nothing, things that encapsulated so much intricate and abstract thought that we can’t fully comprehend its true meaning. So that is why I am iffy when it comes to being called an artist, because what does that mean to do art.
We Millennials don’t just look into a phone to escape, but to find something. To me, we’re a generation of journeymen and journeywomen searching through the internet instead of finding it in the earth or space beyond. They are explorers trying to uncover what has not been seen or filmed on this planet. It’s not just us photographing ourselves to show an idealized life, but to photograph life in general. That’s what I believe and hope for as a Millennial.
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