street intervention
walks/drifts/wanders/errings
Huge Sillytoe, reassessing Situationist derives and psychogeography in relation to their own pragmatic absurdo-anarchist praxis, is engaged in an ongoing worldwide project of meandering walks with no concrete destination. Each walk is undertaken whilst assuming a different unnamed form that comes to be characterized and co-construct their identity through their interactions with passers-by.
Small girl holding hands with her father – “What are you supposed to be?”
Huge Sillytoe – “Well I’m not sure, but I’m trying to find out. Do you know?”
Girl speaks quietly with her father in Bengali.
Father – “She says you look like a deer and a peacock at the same time and that you should be called Hariṇa Maẏūra. That means Deer Peacock!”
Girl, shouting and laughing – “Hariṇa Maẏūra! Hariṇa Maẏūra!“
Middle-aged man walking alone – “Hey how’s it going, man? You some kind of tree or something?“
Huge Sillytoe – “Maybe, but I can’t remember what kind of seed I grew from.”
Man – “Ha! Yeah, you’re some kind of walking tree nut alright!”
(not)happenings
(Not)happenings are the reclamation of public spaces for (anti)spectacles of performance and play. Huge Sillytoe creates (not)happenings both alone and with The Cart Department on an (ir)regular basis.
beetroot brains brexit
Returning to the UK for a spell at the beginning of 2019, having been away from the island for a few years, Huge Sillytoe was welcomed by an overwhelming surge of talk about a ‘hard brexit’, or ‘soft brexit’, or ‘no-deal brexit’. Unsure in any case what this alien word – ‘brexit’ – might signify, Huge Sillytoe began to wonder just how many types of brexit there were, what each one might mean, and what the people of Britain thought of each. In consultation with leading political scientists, and in collaboration with Human Juices, Huge created a full Brexit Variety Forecasting System that could be worn around their neck and interacted with by people to generate their very own preferred type of brexit. From dusk til dawn, Huge and Human Juices deployed this technology on Westminster Bridge besides the Houses of Parliament in order to record the full diversity of brexits imagined by the British public. They presented their discoveries to the British government and that same night caught a bus to Brussels to deliver the urgent findings to the European Union. They still await the response of both authorities.
brocnips
Brocnips is a purveyor of broccoli based poetic philosophy. Using a hammer and sickle to tap shavings from the florets of broccoli growing out of their nipples within the energy field of any given individual they are then able to forecast their revolutionary artistic potential. Brocnips initially appeared as a creature without name but was christened as such within an extraordinary twitter storm that can be seen here and raises interesting and unexpected questions regarding the relationship between experimental poetic exploration and cultural constructions of ‘safety’. Brocnips remains banned from the Durham University Poetry Society but has since been seen sprouting wisdom in street actions worldwide as well as exhibiting video work at Wild Embeddings gallery in Brooklyn.
