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Transcript: CIRCA! The Auguste (Red Clown) The Whiteface ( White Clown) Famous duo Laurel and Hardy Aron Kay The Pieman Delicate Smart Upper status Authority Aron Kay's website Kim Beazley& Ante & Hill The Battle of the Century in 1916 Tom Forcade http://www.pieman.org/ The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan The pieing target is authority figures How can the public get your humor? CIRCA! The first pieing gag Mr. Flip in 1909 clumsy, incompetent eager to do well but, ultimately, incapable provided a butt for the tricks and jokes of the Whiteface Protest the target's political beliefs CLANDESTINE INSURGENT REBEL CLOWN ARMY - uses a horizontalist organizing model as it practices a form of nonviolent direct action that joins collective buffoonery with satiric performance - evokes the Bakhtinian idea of the carnivalesque mass body as opposed to the idealized, individualistic, and discrete/discreet bourgeois body. - introduces play and games into the process of political organizing - Is an easy to start activism: playfulness and mask-like make-up empowers to be deeply disobedient, often in unexpectedly absurd and creative ways - premise that mocking and utterly confusing the enemy can be more powerful than direct confrontation entarteur——pie‐thrower A form of ridicule to humiliate the victim Biotic Baking Brigade Bill Gates Pieing origins from Slapstick Global Justice Movement Pieing Battle The Auguste (Red Clown) gloupinesque —— pie prank Global Justice Movement CIRCA! PIEING CIRCA! This History of Pieing The Whiteface ( White Clown) utilize media Youth International Party An Expression of Political discontent Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), Carnival does not know footlights, in the sense that it does not acknowledge any distinction between actors and spectators. Footlights would destroy a carnival, as the absence of footlights would destroy a theatrical performance. Carnival is not a spectacle seen by the people; they live in it, and everyone participates because its very idea embraces all the people. While carnival lasts, there is no life outside it. During carnival time life is subject only to its laws, that is, the laws of its own freedom. (Bakhtin, 1968, p. 7) Behind the Screen in 1916 Noël Godin “let slip the pies of war” “another one bites the crust” “pies fly while you're having fun” “pie 'em all, and let God sort 'em out” “if the people pie, the leaders will swallow” “it's a good day to pie” “it's better to pie on our feet than live on our knees” “ask not for whom the pie throws – it throws for thee” Thanks! Horizontality -to declare and occupy a joyous, participatory and semi-anonymous, relatively safe place for power inversions/subversions. -to interrupt as the hegemonologue of the corporate media and state rhetoric, -to demonstrating that better alternatives are possible -to key an experimental mode in which new ways to play with and around power can be tested -to create an celebratory culture of active defiance, The pie‐throwers’ communiqués and press releases utilize a specialized terminology CIRCA! Clown Tactical carnival We will remain faceless because we refuse the spectacle of celebrity, because we are everyone, because the carnival beckons, because the world is upside down, because we are everywhere. By wearing masks we show that who we are is not as important as what we want, and what we want is The Carnivalesque PIEING
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