Monday, December 22, 2008

YOU ARE HERE

Where are you? Click HERE 

You are not anywhere but 
You are just 
You are 
This is a fact. 
An ontological fact. 
Immanent. True. 
Where else would you be?

http://2-17youarehere.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24195576@N08/sets/72157609211006631/
A project in collection with EXP

Friday, November 14, 2008

Anti-Invitation

FELLOW FUTURISTS!

On the cusp of Thursday's Progressive Dinner,
it is imperative that we inform you of the nature of the Event!

Your presence is your absence. In other words, your senses will be satiated in the comforts of your very own home, via the dynamic force that is the Mail.

Your body is not desired at the Holy Palate. Your corporeal form is not pure enough to progress through the sterile mechanism of J Walter Wilson. You have poisoned your physique with Pastascuitta, and no manner of purification, purging, or hygienic cleansing can salvage it in time for our Dinner of Progress.

It is not by chance we host this event during a world economic crisis. From the genesis of the event, the economic crisis has inspired depressive panic but also virile creative productivity.

It is no coincidence that the date on the initial invitation--Thursday, November 18th—does not exist on the calendar. This event exists in the liminal space between time, place, and the palate.

Attending the Event consists of the receipt of Dinner in your mailbox. For those who replied promptly and in the affirmative, a sensuous Dinner can be expected to arrive expediently. However, the delivery of the meal is dependent on your manifestation of a manifesto. This manifesto may be made manifest in a number ways: sent electronically to exp.brown@gmail.com, or sent through the Mail to campus box 5932.

For those who did not reply, replied too late, or replied in the negative, your senses will remained unenlightened and your mailbox hungry, like the empty belly of a gluttonous beast.

As a militia of gustatory combatants, we shall march forward collectively dispersed! Heads lifted, spoons raised, tastebuds tantalized—Look at us! We are not out of breath, our hearts are not in the least tired, our epicurean experiments explode now and then, perfuming the room with the typical smell of battle.

Signed,
EXP


Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Breakfast Event

Today Essential Members of EXP met with a Collected Member
Time: 9AM
Location: Blue State Coffee
Conversation: Being Watched


We formally invite you to watch EXP. Monitor us by observing, documenting, photographing, recording the collective Tuesdays from 8:30AM-10:30AM at Blue State Coffee on Thayer Street. By operating as surveillance, you become part of our 100 person collective. 

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Thursday, October 16, 2008

SUCCESS at a Street Theatre Eruption

EXP's 100-person Street Theatre Eruption was an excellent success! Musicians, actors, visual artists, jugglers, lion dancers, circus performers, knitters, improv-ers, poetry readers, and origami-makers all came together to transform College Hill into a giant, marvelous, spectacular, free theater.

Keep your eyes peeled for a video of the event. It'll be posted right here.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

EXP EVENT: THREE CHOICES!

At 10:50AM on Wednesday EXP member Chrissie Bodznick will be eating a vegetable on the bench outside of Sayles. EXP member Karin Freed will be lounging on the grass at the corner of Waterman and Thayer eating a vegetable. EXP member Hollis Mickey will be sitting on the steps of the Rockefeller Library eating a vegetable. You can visit, you can watch, you can eat a vegetable! BUT you cannot participate in all 3 events at once. (Unless you are very fast). So you will have to choose. Be one of a hundred members of this collective by participating in one of these events! Post responses to our blog : expbrown.blogspot.com

See our listing as a CAMPUS EVENT.

EXP Member H:
Consumed arugula. Librarians are angered. They hunt EXP member H. She hides in the stacks.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

EXP has THE CLAP


CLAP! Photo-documented:









Monday, October 6, 2008

CLAP! Event


Clap! EXP Event 10:20 AM on October 7th, 2008. 
Wherever you are! Duration: 2 seconds.

Keep your eye on the clock. At exactly 10:20 AM on October 7th, 2008 become a member of a general audience with the explosive performance collective EXP! When the time is nigh, put your hands together in a round of applause for EXACTLY 2 seconds. Be one of a hundred members of this collective by participating in this event! Post responses to our blog!

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Upcoming Event: GIGANTIC Street Theatre Eruption

On Thursday, October 16th, there will be a GIGANTIC street theatre event happening all throughout college hill, and I really need your help with it.

THE MISSION: To line every major street around Brown's campus with a total of 100 street performers - at least three performers (or groups of performers) per block, maybe even more. Performers will be doing anything from playing an instrument, to reading poetry, to doing yoga poses, to blowing bubbles. (See below for more examples). The event will be 1/2 hour in length, starting at 5:00pm and ending at 5:30pm. It will be big, and surprising, and joyful, and utopian. It will require a very minimal time commitment.

WHY: This event falls into that category of art that tries to show what's possible. It is about exploring and presenting the possibilities laden in our own streets. What if the streets were completely filled with performers one day? Not just one or two, but 50 or even 100 of them? What if, out of nowhere, the streets around campus transformed into a giant theater? A giant theater that was totally accessible, totally inclusive, and totally free of charge? Who's to say these things can't happen?

This event might seem idealistic, and it is, but it's not naive. If we stop imagining the world as it can be, then, in a way, we give up on changing it.

WHAT CONSTITUTES PERFORMANCE: every person, no matter how little or how much he or she is involved in theatre, can take part in this event. There are infinite kinds of performances. I'll list some here, but if you want to do something that I don't mention, feel free!
- sing
- play an instrument
- beat box
- break dance
- swing dance
- tango
- juggle
- perform magic
- clown
- mime
- be a human statue
- do improv
- whistle
- perform a monologue
- perform a play
- recite poetry
- dribble a basketball in cool ways
- balance something on your head
- do yoga
- do karate moves (but not on pedestrians)
- rap
- paint
- draw
- sculpt
- carve wood
- knit
- cook
- twirl a baton, or some other object
- do origami
- make a duct tape wallet
- impersonate celebrities
- interpretive dance
- jump rope
- pose in interesting ways
- tell jokes
- operate a puppet
- blow bubbles using only your saliva
- turn an everyday object into a musical instrument and play it
- tap dance
- dance in any way you can imagine
- wiggle your ears
- ANYTHING!

A FEW NOTES: This event is not intended to be hostile or aggressive. Performers will be allowed to do almost anything, but they will not be allowed to attack pedestrians in any way, or do anything illegal.

WHO'S IN CHARGE: This event is being organized by EXP, a theatre collective which seeks to produce unlikely performance art events that defy the traditional limits of theatre. For more information on EXP, visit expbrown.blogspot.com. The members of the collective will hold two meetings leading up to the event, which will be used to explain the details of it even more. The first is on Tuesday October 7th at 6:30pm in Wilson 101. You must attend that meeting to participate as a performer. If for whatever reason you cannot, but still really want to perform, email exp.brown@gmail.com saying so. Again, this will require a MINIMAL TIME COMMITMENT.

YOUR NEXT STEP: If you want to be part of this marvelously GIGANTIC street theatre event, please show up to the meeting that EXP is hosting on Tuesday October 7th at 6:30pm in Wilson 101. It will be brief, but very informative. Also, if you have any questions about the event, direct them to exp.brown@gmail.com.

We need 100 people to get involved. Feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in helping out!

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Event 6


Friday, September 26th
Member of EXP sits next to a car battery from 2:24PM-3:48PM.
At 3:48 PM a person removes the battery from next to the member of EXP. 

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Event 5

9:40 AM on the dot
Members of  EXP observe broken sprinkler with workmen wearing florescent vests. Members are silent. 

Friday, September 19, 2008

Event 4

Friday, September 19th


Event 4:
Sometime between 8:32 AM and 10:47AM
Member drops personal grocery list in East Providence. 
First, lost; to be found. 

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Events 1 & 2 & 3

Of the small variety:


Wednesday, September 17th

Event 3: 12:33 PM
Member of EXP leaves this message on 3 public computers
Username: EXP Event #3
Password:

Tuesday, September 16th

Event 2: 10:07 AM
Member places note on bicycle.
It reads, "Event #2: Member places note on bicycle"

Event 1: 9:57 AM
Members of EXP stand on the sidewalk for approximately 3.2 minutes. 
One member eats a banana. 


Monday, August 25, 2008

More to come...

EXP has set a new expiration date for itself: 12-12-08. We will continue using this blog to post information about past and upcoming events. EXP may be contacted at exp.brown@gmail.com.