Culture

Enter the clowns

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Guru magazine, 2006
What better way to test the inner creative spirit of Thai students than to bombard them with images of the surreal? On June 16, a warning was sent out: the clowns are coming. Two weeks later and they have arrived and are alive and well, up to all manner of peculiar activities, traipsing [...]

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Hoontown: International guerrilla street arts insurgency infiltrates Sam Sen

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Guru magazine, 2006
“We’re forest mongrels,” says American performance artist Duskin Drum, talking about himself and his brother. “We grew up with no electricity, running water or TV. We played in the forest and acted out stories about monsters and animals. We did it as street performance all over the US, playing multiple characters with [...]

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