Interference, Absurdity, Performance, and Political Change

During September and October of 2018, Huge Sillytoe offered a series of workshops entitled ‘Interference, Absurdity, Performance, and Political Change‘ in collaboration with the Brooklyn-based library of dissident culture Interference Archive. The series involved four sessions exploring participants’ notions of ‘the absurd’ and ‘the political’ through guided improvisation and the collective devising of a culminating street intervention. Here, outside the courthouse in downtown Brooklyn, one participant frantically asked for directions to a library using a map of Shanghai, another blew snippets of automatic poetry out of a snorkel, another invited passersby to doodle on a set of hard-boiled eggs, whilst another interviewed observers on a tape that constantly erased itself concerning their perception of the political implications of what they were seeing.