TACTICAL FRIVOLITY: The Figure of the Clown, disruption, art, activism and powerlessness
Mousonturm Probebühne 3 (4.OG)
Workshop
- 27.05.2016, 16 - 20.30 Uhr
- 29.05.2016, 10 - 14.30 Uhr
- 28.05.2016, 10 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.
The clown entered the stage of global political protests as a character a while ago, think of the Pink Fluffy Army that march with toilet brushes and a howling chant against Pegida demonstrations or against police violence and that uses this civil disobedience as tactically interrupting or exuberant acts.
«Tactical Frivolity» is a workshop in which art, activism, performance and politics mix with the autonomy and agency of the mask. The three-day workshop encompasses group readings, writing, watching video and trying tactically «disrupting» clown characters. The American performer/artist Jeremy Wade directs this workshop as his prepartion for the project “The Greatest Show on Earth. An International Performance-Circus for the 21 century” in which he revisits together with other international performance artist his own artistic practice through the lens of circus.
Workshop for performers, choreographers, activists and all other people interested in the relation of performance and art to activism and protest forms.
More information and application: info@tanzplattformrheinmain.de / anna.wagner@mousonturm.de