the Art of Clowning
Project Artaud and Developing Environments Artist Salon Series presents world-traveling clown artist, musician, and longtime member of Project Artaud, Bob Taxin, in an afternoon of music, stories, and conversation. Taxin will be joined by pianists Elektra Schmidt and Mauro fforitissimo.
Piano performance: 3-4:15PM
Artist Talk with Bob Taxin: 4-5PM
Gramaphone and Mingle: 5-6PM
Bob Taxin is Fire Eater, Escape Artist, Magician, Mindreader, Actor, Circus Clown, Busker and Musician. He has performed in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and has taught at their Clown College. He’s been a long-time member of Project Artaud and has been performing there since 1974.
Pianist Elektra Schmidt, a classical pianist and curator of the Artist Migration series.
Pianist Mauro ffortissimo, a piano liberator artist, “sound sculptor”, creator of compositions without metronome, sunset piano founder, flower piano producer, a painter and versatile in poetics)
“Despite all the good reasons not to we were a group of self-imposed artist exiles who somehow found a way to survive in expensive Paris for 3 years in the 70’s. None of us had any external source of income, no visas, no papers, and somehow had the time of our lives and made lasting friendships which still endure. Artists associated with Project (and Antonin) Artaud were well represented and ever present during our meanderings and performances. It was an exciting and very creative period. I plan to informally talk about some of our adventures and answer questions.” – Bob Taxin
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