Eggsodus

On our last day together in Athens, the three of us revisited the project and reflected on: - 2 days collaborating with others - the whole project and the lessons we can draw - what we want to do next Group cohesion and complicity  Compared to the first day, the second day with collaborators brought a higher level of cohesion and group complicity. This probably arose from having a group organization, with tasks assigned from the beginning of Day 2, as opposed to Day 1 when each individual could set their own tasks. Particularly on the return to the workspace, there was much more group work than on the journey from the workspace to the designated place of action on Day 2. However, valorising this is not an easy task. Some collaborators, in the feedback, valued the individual freedom of Day 1 over the group cohesion of Day 2. The feedback of others was the opposite. In general, this valorisation was related to the fun that the person reported having. This raises another question: how...

Prior to our days of collaborating with a group of local clowns and artists who responded. to our invitation, we gathered together what we were interested in taking forward with that group.  In order to make some sense of all of this, and to be able to communicate some of our direction of travel to people joining us, we found the categories below to be useful.  The plan for this new phase of the research was as follows: 1. Short Discursive Introduction a. Our starting points  - decolonising clowning - the third concerns of old trickster traditions, political activism and public spaces b. What we've come up with so far - see below for categories of the work c. Our invitation to the collaborators - the intention of the workshop is to simply continue in the same direction we have taken on previous days, continuing to explore, to ask questions in practice, to test ideas, to reflect. The presence of the collaborators will of course alter and influence what we are doing, and en...

Here are some of the actions, objects and stories we thought to use with eggs. Objects Cardboard trays Wooden eggs Plastic eggs Bouncy eggs Real eggs Blown eggs Actions Throw eggs into your hat - blindfold the hat wearer/thrower - move around Lay/shit an egg (after catching in hat (and digesting) Egg races - rolling, spoon - get over the line - shove ha'penny - towards X as destination Representation and Story Eggs = people Eggs = populations (maps and pie charts of migration) Paint faces on eggs  Paint the face of whoever you choose - family, enemy, neighbour, famous person, politician, fictional character Painting the face humanises the object (cf. dehumanising of refugees, the other) Look after the egg, incubate it in hands, pass it around - invests with empathy The Unknown Egg 9soldier) - large egg without a face Egg mask on person, draw, write, paint on it Photograph your egg - passport, facial recognition technology Gallery of photos of egg faces (the egg registry of clowns) ...