Offal Unstory is an Abject-Oriented
Ontology / Animist Trash puppet show attacking the literary canon
from the Iliad to Don Quixote. Developed with a grant from the
Henson Foundation and assembled from waste objects across 36
European countries and NYC, it often toured in parallel to Garbage
Fest, with a final installation and culmination at HERE Arts'
Puppetopia in 2003.
Original Trailer for the project:
Clip from the final (as yet) production:
Photos by Richard Termine:
The Abject Micropuppet (anti)Revolutionary Army Corps is a
collective of tiny living action figures assembled from the small
trash from small countries. They are an ever-broadening squadron
of militant anti-everything radicals determined to cannibalize
reality, themselves, and anyone or anything who tries to approach
them for good or ill. Pseudo-Materialst Specilative Realism and
Object Oriented Ontology freaks, even the scripts for their own
plays turn on their motherships like berserk kamikazes. For a time
they will integrate with other projects like Offal Unstory, but it
never lasts. This year the European fleet (representing Andorra,
Lichtenstein, San Marino, The Vatican, and Luxemborg's small
garbage) will be joined by the Asian group (from East Timor,
Singapore, Hong Kong and Maccau -- sadly still excluding Bahrain
and Bhutan) in NYC, where the project started, for a miniature
biennale in Nix Gallery.
post-O.E. video of the Asian Abjects in "NIL" Gallery Gardette,
Paris 2024 (thank you Tereza!)
