Even more difficult!
Fairs, sideshows, circuses, travelling theatres are all places separated from daily reality, where things happen that border on the impossible, and the forbidden is permitted. Adults went ther to recover their childhood innocence, and to enjoy themselves watching the triple somersault of the trapeze artiste, the ehief biffing a policeman on the head, the man with the cardboard head. And not only watching, but going into action too. Defeating a skittle army,, making an impassive being swallow balls, or shooting at a target.
Trapeze artistes, puppets, ball swallowers, occupied noisy, public spaces, irreverent and transgressive. The bourgeoisie, not too fond of disorder,, turned them into toys and transfered them to the private domain of the home, where every child repeated the function for a nearlyalways nonexistent audience. What was going onin the head of the lone girl or boy we will never know This was their space of freedom where toys reurned to being close to poetry!
Even more difficult!
Fairs, sideshows, circuses, travelling theatres are all places separated from daily reality, where things happen that border on the impossible, and the forbidden is permitted. Adults went ther to recover their childhood innocence, and to enjoy themselves watching the triple somersault of the trapeze artiste, the ehief biffing a policeman on the head, the man with the cardboard head. And not only watching, but going into action too. Defeating a skittle army,, making an impassive being swallow balls, or shooting at a target.
Trapeze artistes, puppets, ball swallowers, occupied noisy, public spaces, irreverent and transgressive. The bourgeoisie, not too fond of disorder,, turned them into toys and transfered them to the private domain of the home, where every child repeated the function for a nearlyalways nonexistent audience. What was going onin the head of the lone girl or boy we will never know This was their space of freedom where toys reurned to being close to poetry!