Jef Johnson will talk about nothing.
Free and open to the public.
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Jef Johnson is a leader in the field of performance theory. His research focuses on naive experience, consciousness, play, patterned behavior and social identity. He has been investigating personal perception, performance and play for the past 25 years and has more than 20 years of experience working in live performance. He is director of Jef Johnson’s CLOWN LAB and The New Institute for Creative Discovery and has served on the faculty of the Nouveau Clown Institute in Barcelona, Spain. Currently he is in Mexico, conducting research into the nature of human consciousness, creative association and social performance. Drawing from Clown, Mask and Butoh, his work has initiated deeper investigation into the primary essence of human experience, character and performance.
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“In Life, we are searching for understanding. But it is in our most naive and mindless moments that we glimpse the reality of our greater consciousness. And those instances remind us of the beautiful simplicity and wonder that exists in all things, in every moment.”
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“Man's nature is to establish predictable circumstances and to hold tight to the daily manner of maintaining that predictable ‘reality.’ Awareness requires freedom from rigid constructions and formulas. It requires presence and effort....without the guarantee of any special benefit.”
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”When you can accept possibility and appreciate the joy in any circumstance, when you can live without fear of social commentary or judgement, when you can change the world through your compassionate innocence and open heart, when you can live in utter stupidity and love life, then you live as a clown.”
