Keep an eye on these creatives who are changing the rules of the game

In our latest&nbsp;issue of&nbsp;L&rsquo;Officiel Art&nbsp;is dubbed The Danger Issue - and for good reason. Throughout the issue, artists reflected upon the last decade&#39;s upheavals, and what lies ahead for the coming ten years. Even though this decade is off to a rough start - Kobe&#39;s passing in January feels like eons ago - the immense talent in the issue are here to share the things that inspire them. This group of emerging creatives, <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/categories/art">artists</a>,&nbsp;collectives and initiatives are changing the rules of the game, by means of their talent and innovative nature. We asked&nbsp;them to share some of the things that inspire them, like Trillbilly Worker&rsquo;s Party <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop%20culture/the-best-podcasts-to-listen-to-during-quarantine">podcast</a>, the&nbsp;Riverdale&nbsp;Season 3 Finale,&nbsp;and Sissi Club in Marseille. Scroll to read up on the&nbsp;cool and talented creatives to be on the lookout for in 2020.&nbsp;

The 25-year-old Los Angeles-born, New York City-based artist and recent Columbia University graduate, has an eclectic <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/hunter-schafer-euphoria-sketchbook-art-2019">sketchbook</a>&nbsp;at hand. From sculptures, paintings to poetry, Serpas, a community organizer and activist since high school, is largely concerned with questions that surround racial inequality and structural inequality. &quot;My political education communicated that black and brown artists don&rsquo;t get bought, sold, or circulated, just mood-boarded,&quot;&nbsp;said Serpas in an interview with Ravelin magazine. Serpas finds inspiration both from podcasts and exhibitions, including Roh Projects Jakarta @AAAAHH!!! Paris Internationale 2019, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-972848621-463073718">Trillbilly Worker&rsquo;s Party podcast</a>, and&nbsp;Ionna Tsulaia&rsquo;s studio at VA[A]DS Free University Tbilisi, Georgia.

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ser_sera/">@ser_sera</a>

Ser Serpas

Founded in 2018, NVSHU is an all-female DJ collective from Shanghai. They offer deejaying lessons to femme, non-binary, and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/nicole-eisenman-public-artwork-boston-2019">LGTBQ+</a> individuals in the local electronic music scene. Their goal is to empower marginalized people through music education.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/nvshushanghai/">@nvshushanghai</a>

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NVSHU DJ COLLECTIVE 

Shu Shu is the cutest rockstar and&nbsp;very cool <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/categories/fashion">style</a> to boot. The singer gets much of her inspiration from dreamy scenery. &quot;I went on a little road trip with friends in the north of France to&nbsp;shoot the &lsquo;my crown&rsquo; music video. We kinda didn&rsquo;t have a clear&nbsp;plan, that&rsquo;s how we encountered the best things that you never&nbsp;expect, like the sea, the sunset, the carpet. The North of France&nbsp;is solid.&quot;&nbsp;She&#39;s also been inspired by&nbsp;the&nbsp;One Punch Man,&nbsp;and by&nbsp;<a href="https://vinvin.eu/thomas-liu-le-lann.html">Soft Sculpture by Thomas Liu Le Lann.</a>

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/_shushu_chiu_/">@_shushu_chiu_</a>

Shu Shu 

Mitchell Anderson is an <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/peter-marino-chanel-spring-issue-2019">artist</a> living in Zurich where he runs the project space Plymouth Rock. One of his most cherished memories is the&nbsp;Speedparade 19 at Mikro, Zurich. &quot;This annual weekend-long party in a humble shed of an exhibition&nbsp;space/music venue was ecstasy. Walid El Barbir, Flavio Audino, Luca Digilio and Nicola Kazimir run a club without members and&nbsp;toxicity: doors are open and music is the bouncer. Dancing until&nbsp;Sunday night my heart honestly felt like it was going to explode,&nbsp;then a bunch of us left to see Parasite.&quot; He&#39;s found inspiration in&nbsp;watching the&nbsp;Riverdale Season 3 Finale, and reading Eva Kenny&rsquo;s <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/privilege-nostalgia-reading-beckett-during-brexit/">&quot;Privilege Nostalgia: Reading Beckett During Brexit.&quot;&nbsp;</a>

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mitchellwanderson/">@mitchellwanderson&nbsp;</a>

Mitchell Anderson 

Queer Is Not A Label is a recurring party in Paris since 2019.&nbsp;Founded by K&eacute;vin Blinderman (artist, member of the run-space Treize in Paris) and Paul-Alexandre Islas (artist, DJ),&nbsp;these noisy, aggressive and emo parties put forward DJs&nbsp;who place questions of <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/talia-chetrit-spring-issue-2019">identities</a> at the heart of their musical practice. Queer Is Not A Label has found inspiration from watching the first episode of Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken&nbsp;and Venus Liuzzo&rsquo;s Youtube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av2QlharaP8&amp;feature=y">Video</a>. They&#39;ve also found inspiration from Soundcloud mixes by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/clubetormenta">TORMENTA</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://soundcloud.com/scintii">Scintii</a>.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/kevinblinderman/">@kevinblinderman</a>

Queer Is Not A Label 

Not Manet&rsquo;s Type (NMT) collective is a female friendship loose group of <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/john-yuyi-gucci-new-work-fashion-art">artists</a>, art historians and writers working on collaborative curatorial projects, exploring contexts of exhibition, and upholding cultural activism. The group finds inspiration from Black Mass publishing, the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zouk.vintage/?hl=en">@zouk.vintage</a> Instagram account, and NMT x ENSAPC, a curatorial intervention from May of 2019.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BpfIEXyA9ng/">@nmtcollective&nbsp;</a>

NMT 

Death Panel is a <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/categories/politics-culture">politics</a> and culture podcast and artist project comprised of Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Emily&nbsp;Barker, Philip Rocco, and Vince Patti. The group has been inspired by the following:&nbsp;Health Justice Now by Tim Faust,&nbsp;<a href="https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/paperback/The-Story-of-New-Yorks-Staircase/Paul-Goldberger/Prestel-com/e541917.rhd">Thomas Heatherwick Studio&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Vessel,&rdquo;</a>&nbsp;and the General Strike in Chile and Worldwide (&ldquo;Viva la revuelta proletaria a la huelga general par todo&rdquo;).

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/deathpanelpodcast/">@deathpanelpodcast&nbsp;</a>

Death Panel Podcast 

Juliette Marchand is the Associate Curator at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles&nbsp;and EXTRAMENTALE Founder&nbsp;and Artistic Director, a curatorial platform devoted to adolescent symptoms in contemporary art. Based in&nbsp;Arles, France, Marchand says she&#39;s found inspiration from the following <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/tags/books">books</a> and exhibits:&nbsp;Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lews,&nbsp;David Wojnarowicz: Photography &amp; Film 1978-1992&nbsp; at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and I Wake Up every morning in this killing machine called America: David Wojnarowicz and Marion Scemama at New Galerie, Paris, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2019/lebensformen/lebensformen_start.php">Life Forms,</a>&nbsp;Apr 25 - 27 2019, Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and John Tresch.

Juliette Marchand 

Tarek Lakhrissi is a visual artist, poet, and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/erin-henry-artist-interview-2019">writer</a> based in&nbsp;Paris. He&rsquo;s part of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020). He finds inspiration in places like <a href="https://www.marseilleexpos.com/les-membres/liste-des-structures/sissi-club/">Sissi Club</a> in Marseille, the song &quot;La misere est si belle&quot; by the rap group PNL, and the movie&nbsp;Atlantics&nbsp;by Mati Diop.

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/tareklakhrissi/">@tareklakhrissi</a>

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Tarek Lakhrissi 

Christelle Oyiri (also&nbsp;known as CRYSTALL- 
MESS) is a French&nbsp;music producer, DJ&nbsp;and multidisciplinary&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/best-instagram-photographers">artist</a> based in Paris. &quot;I was growing increasingly bored of rap being&nbsp;polished and contained&nbsp;and then Miami rapper&nbsp;Saucy Santana shook the 2019 table with&nbsp;their single &lsquo;Walk Em&nbsp;like A Dog&rsquo;. The revenge bop every femdom fantasize about &ndash; and add to that a New Orleans bounce beat and you won me over!&nbsp;Also I do believe Saucy Santana is going to be the first LGBTQ&nbsp;and non-binary rapper to break out in the mainstream.&quot;

Oyiri has been inspired by Miami rapper Saucy Santana, artist <a href="https://hvw8.com/steven-traylor">Steven Traylor</a>, and the moment the Louvre removed the Sackler family name from its walls.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/crystallmess/?hl=fr">@crystallmess</a>

Christelle Oyiri 

Amalia Ulman is an artist based&nbsp;between L.A, NYC, Shanghai, and&nbsp;Gij&oacute;n. Her practice includes performance, installation, video and net-art <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/scrawl--famous-doodles">works</a>. When asked to reveal something that inspires her, she said&nbsp;&quot;<a href="https://softskull.com/dd-product/exquisite-mariposa/">Exquisite Mariposa</a> by Fiona Duncan&nbsp;is an amazing book. I love it, not&nbsp;only because I&rsquo;m in it and she says wonderful things about me, but&nbsp;because she has managed to craft&nbsp;something new and fresh that was&nbsp;much needed. It is emotional for me&nbsp;to read this book because I was present during the making but I think&nbsp;anyone can enjoy Fiona&rsquo;s writing, it&rsquo;s simply brilliant.&quot; She&#39;s also been inspired by the film&nbsp;Non Fiction by Olivier Assayas, and by Vincent Macaigne.&nbsp;

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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/amaliaulman/">@amaliaulman</a>

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Amalia Ulman 

Bob Bicknell-Knight&nbsp;is an artist, curator and writer based&nbsp;in London. He is&nbsp;interested in ideas&nbsp;surrounding automation, utopian ideologies and surveillance&nbsp;capitalism. He&#39;s sought inspiration from the book&nbsp;<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538943/the-left-hand-of-darkness-by-ursula-k-le-guin/">Left Hand of Darkness</a>&nbsp;by Ursula K. Leguin, the exhibition&nbsp;Symptom Machine&nbsp;by Kate Cooper at Hayward Gallery, London, and the animated <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/categories/film-tv">TV</a> show Tuca&nbsp;&amp; Bertie.

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Bob Bicknell-Knight 

Billy Tang,&nbsp;the senior curator at Rockbund Art <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/virtual-museum-tours-online-art-home">Museum</a> in Shanghai, has found inspiration in many different places. He mentions&nbsp;<a href="https://www.para-site.art/exhibitions/an-opera-for-animals/">Opera for Animals</a> at Para Site in Hong Kong, as well as Wang Xu:&nbsp;Garden of Seasons at Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles. He also mentions the&nbsp;Closing Ceremony Magazine Launch of the Issue &lsquo;Americano&rsquo; at Bank in Shanghai.

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/billytanng/">@billytanng</a>

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