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NYC/Cascadia💥🌍💥 End of the World Tour
Not-Happenings • "Puppets" • Garbage Fest
🐌📬 PO 64 NYC 10276 • 🛒 •

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A Year Ago, when the world was a little less horrible, I had the great honor of conducting a ten day long residency and workshop at the @forientetl in East Timor, and it was one of the best times of my life. A dedicated core of actors, sculptors and other artists worked for hours every day until together we created the Mesin, a kind of analog moving Living Noisy Garbage Opera Parade & Machine to Make Changes In the World. We fused puppetry, costuming, trash philosophy, theater and performance art and public interventions, and everyone went So Hard. These are some highlights of our processes. Theres so much more to share, and so many undocumented moments I wish we had. Knocked my socks off. Thanks a million to everyone who helped make this happen! I hope to go back someday and tour all 13 provinces of Timor with this group.
@gusmaoratna @aidaamaraldacosta ... i cant find anyone else's ig :( But Fles, Aswyh, Joanna... thank you all so much. Hope to see you again soon. taken in Dili, Timor-Leste by @enormousface

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Here is a sampling of a few of the carts that have Not-Happened over the quears.
#shopping #spomenik #salmondays by @enormousface

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It's our Seventh Tour this year as the @flotsamrivercircus this time on the Illinois Waterway from St Louis to Chicago. Every summer we rebuild this little boat and play our apocalyptic circus in all the little towns down (or up!) the river. I've been with Flotsam from the beginning, wearing many hats under the tireless and stoical leadership of Jason Webley (i tried to put his song Back to the Garden as the audio but apparently IG didn't have it, but were more horticultural than ever!) Each year the show feels tighter and more dramaturgically sound, and im proud of what we've done.

Me, im the prophet of doom, the alleged artistic director, the sea monster, and i make all the mutant fish, puppets, and inflatables. The show takes place in a dystopian future where temperatures and waters have risen, and invasive mutant fish have taken over the world....and weirdly, here in the Midwest, invasive fish Have surged hugely and our tour barely survived a 20 year flood....more on that later I hope.

Flotsam is coming to Chicago in two weeks after this weekend in Peoria IL. Its an expensive and difficult undertaking, and its free to see and totally funded by donations, so please go at it on our website if you can.

Its a joy to be working on this fantastic project again this summer with @shannygraymouse @builds.character @jandamm @freckleglitz @justin.therrien @spicy_dialectic @miriamhacksaw and Jason Webley. Most if not all of these pictures are of our first st louos shows by bythearch (OK and im mostly posting pictures of the monsters cuz most people aren't and its my touch in the show...but u can see lots of the more circusey stuff elsewhere) by @enormousface

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Thanks so much to everyone who came out to see Gilgamesh Fragments work-in-progress at @fu_ture.space NYC, and to everyone who helped us along the way, assyriologists, translators, puppeteers, musicians, our friends, and of course the @jimhensonfoundation . It was a blast to go so deep into a work. We learned so much and cant wait to keep developing it further in the years to come. by @enormousface

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4 months ago

Gilgamesh: Fragments of a Megalithic Puppet Opera

8pm June 4th 5th and 6th at @fu_ture.space NYC

Ticket Link in Bio
*Not necessarily for kids (but Friday could be moreso?) by @enormousface

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Presenting the first in progress version of our Gilgamesh show June 4th, 5th and 6th at 8pm at @fu_ture.space in Ridgewood. Ticket Link in bio! by @enormousface

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5 months ago

We'll be back out in the Gilgamesh G train this evening exploring Dreams, Sex, Death and the End of the World.

CLINTON-WASHINGTON 7PM
BROADWAY 8PM
BERGEN ST 9PM
CHURCH AV AT 10PM

Hope to see yall on the platform! by @enormousface

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Atrahasis (or Utnapishtim/Ziusudra) is the primordial Noah, lifted down through Abrahamia in the story of the Great Deluge ("Amaru" in Sumerian) that flooded all the earth.

Gilgamesh becomes obsessed with death after losing his best friend and lover, the hairy wild man Enkidu, and goes in search of Utnapishtim, the only immortal human, bringing back his ancient tale to Uruk. Gilgamesh is called "He Who Saw The Deep", and this story-within-a-story is among the deepest of those seen depths, and was also one of the very earliest recovered pieces of the Epic.

When wunderkund Assyriologist George Smith first translated the Flood Tablet in 1872 after it had been lost for 3500 years, he was so shocked to find Noah's Ark (almost verbatim doves and all) that he is reported to have stripped off his clothes and leapt around the British Museum naked screaming for joy, convinced that he had just found definitive evidence for the historicity of Christianity - although the opposite may in fact have been true.

There are so many more delicious pieces here: a god loud-talking to a reed fence to avoid breaking an oath of silence, seven days of stale-molding bread used to mark time...but we'll save that for later as the project develops.

Thanks so much to the Henson Foundation for supporting this! by @enormousface

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𒀻 Gilgamesh: Fragments of a Megalithic Puppet Opera 𒀭

Announcing three work-in progress performances, Thursday-Saturday June 4-6 @fu_ture.space in Ridgewood, Queens, of the first five tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh, building towards our nightlong marathon translation of all twelve tablets. Tickets are on sale now. (Link in Bio)

This month we have been performing GILGAMESH ON THE G TRAIN: A subterranean river of the ancient epic through all 21 stations of New York City's G Train – paratexts, glosses, lacunae, excerpts, and fanfiction. Check here or our website megafawn.org for specific dates and times of G Train station performances. Tonight we will be at Metropolitan 7pm, Hoyt 8pm, and Classon at 9pm. by @enormousface

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We are delighted at long last to announce the formation of MegaFawn, a new performance collective exploring ecological catastrophe through epic literature, beginning with the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Ron Shalom and Kalan Sherrard have worked together for 17 years in many configurations and for the past two years we have been piling up research and development towards this fundamental dream opus.

Gilgamesh is our everything. It is the first (non)-story, a hodgepodge of translations, additions, subtexts, lacunae, impossible and lost meanings – arguably the most seminal story of Western literature, perhaps infecting the civilized mind with the virus of narrative. It is a story of love, immortality, lust, power, humanity's break from the ancient past, and the ontological crisis between Nature and Civilization.

Since 2024, we have been immersed in this story. Thanks in part to the generosity of curators, historians, and Assyriologists who have guided us thus far, we've begun to swim in the oceans of scholarship that surround the Epic. We are students of sun- and oven-baked bricks, cuneiform engraving, lapis lazuli refinement, the pictography of cylinder seals, and the uncountable interconnections between the world of Gilgamesh and the world we live in now.

Like the Epic itself and the millennia of lives it has lived, our interpretation of Gilgamesh will evolve and mutate with each performance, interwoven with the astounding tales of its loss, rediscovery, and translation. We are thrilled to present workshop performances for you this May and June in New York City, as we work towards our dream of bringing our Gilgamesh to its place of origin, the city of Uruk in modern Iraq.

We're grateful for the support of a Henson Foundation grant as we pursue this work. We'll be posting performance updates here, along with snippets of what we're creating.

*P.S. we have a SPECIAL PRIZE to anyone who can decode the cuneiform written on that flood tablet mask and an EXTRA SPECIAL PRIZE to anyone who can explain or force it to make sense* taken in NYC by @enormousface

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7 months ago

Ser monstruo a veces es un lujo silencioso: Enormous Face convierte el rechazo en cuerpo 🖤 @enormousface (Kalan Sherrard) Les Ateliers Wonder Aubervilliers. by @enormousface

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9 months ago

We’re back!
The Flotsam River Circus is hitting the waters again touring the Erie Canal & Hudson River, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal!

We’re floating from #buffalo to #nyc this summer come find us along the way!

📍 Full schedule & locations:
👉 🔗www.rivercircus.com

Spread the word ! see you by the river!

#rivercircus #eriecanal200 #hudsonriver #FreeCircusShow #FloatingStage taken in D'Youville University by @enormousface

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