You might need to clear your throat after this week. There’s an event for that.
People will be gathering for ten minutes of primal screaming on Saturday morning, starting at 10 sharp. This will take place under the Stegosaurus (pictured above) that lives between City Hall and the Wadsworth Atheneum.
The organizers of this say that it is not a protest or riot and that there should be no chanting. It’s just a release, as they say, to “get it all out so we can move on and be lovely people once again.”
Richard
Is this some type of art work for Open Studio? I am already a lovely person do I need to scream? What will happen to a lovely person if they do? or If I am un-lovely will I turn lovely after screaming for 10 mins or does it take more than a scream? What if I scream and then get such a release that I riot because I feel so released is there away to get away with that? What are we moving on from? If I know a chant from when the Stegosaurus roamed can I teach it to the screamers taking a chance that they may protest? Who are the lovely artists sponsoring this scream? Really Darling what’s this all about?
Kerri Provost
You always have such fascinating questions, Richard.
I think the purpose of this is so that those who have been weighed down by emotion all week can get that out and then move on to be productive again, whether that is by making art or making a grand fuss (or both). Can’t really control what people do after, I suppose, but it makes sense to ask those coming to participate in the way that the event is intended and not to dilute it with everyone else’s agendas.
Richard
I like this idea very much. Probably one of the best art works happening during Open Studio even if no one thinks of it as art or it isn’t intended as art. (I won’t ask if it can still be art.) Oh no, do I have an agenda by making that statement? Got any potion for being fighting mad? or maybe being fighting mad is the potion? One of my good friends said the best thing she ever did was join in the crying for Ana Mendieta at the Carl Andre exhibition. She felt really sad, then transported, cleansed and full of new energy. My best to the organizers of this event as Gertrude Stein said, “Each one as they may.”
P.S I hope you go and take some photos and post a scream on RH.