RESOURCES / LINKS

• Carnival examples
• Other Costumed/Masked Festivals
• Contemporary Carnivalesque / Processional events

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Global Carnival:
Link to Carnival Celebrations listed as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Sites

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European Urban/Village Carnivals:

Binche Carnival, Belgium
Fasnacht, Basel, Switzerland
Egetmann, Tramin/Termeno, Italy
Entroido in Laza, Spain

 

Rural Wildman Traditions of Central Europe:

Photo survey of Wildermann by Charles Freger
Mamuthones, Sardinia
Kukeri, Bulgaria
Zvoncari, Croatia
Busojaras, Hungary

 

Americas

Mardi Gras, New Orleans
Trinidad Carnival, Port of Spain
Cajun Carnival, Basile and rural Louisiana
Jacmel Kanaval, Haiti
Carnivale in Oruro, Bolivia
Jonkonnu, Bahamas
Olinda/Recife Carnaval, Brazil

 

 

Other Carnivalesque Festivals

Matsuri Festivals, Japan
Jack in the Green Festivals, England
Gigantes, giant festival puppets in Spain and Portugal

 

Modern Vernacular Processions

Mermaid Parade, Coney Island NYC
Art Car Parade, Houston TX
Parade of the Species, Olympia WAhttps://www.coneyisland.com/programs/mermaid-parade
NY Village Halloween Parade, NYC
Bosch Parade, Netherlands
Burning Man and various “Baby Burns” (Flipside, AfrikaBurn, etc.)
The Funk Parade, Washington DC

 

Political Street Theater:

Bread and Puppet
Welfare State
Puppeteers Cooperative(68 Ways to Build Giant Puppets)
Womens’ March 2017
Occupy Wall Street
The Yes Men (and other Culture-jammers)

 

 

Contemporary Artists / Collectives

Claire Tancons: Curator and writer on Contemporary Carnivalesque Performance

Peter Minshall (Trinidad Mas‘Man)
Nick Cave (Heard•NY)
Maria Magdalena Pons Identified and Habla La Madre
Meschac Gaba (Tresses, Perruques and Défiles de Perruques (2005 – present)
William Pope L (Crawls)
William Kentridge (More Sweetly Play the Dance)
William Kentridge (Triumphs and Laments)
Laura Anderson Barbata (Intervention: Indigo)
Cai Quo Chiang (Fireflies)
Marlon Griffith (“Mas” artist from Trinidad / Japan)
Lorraine O’Grady (Art is…)
Ben Fain (Parade Floats)
Stephen Varble
Hamish Fulton (walking) Vito Acconci (following)
Swoon  (Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea)
Matthew Barney (Lama Lamina) – performance with Arto Lindsay in Bahia Carnival, Brazil
Marinella Senatore (community processions)
Arto Lindsay (Spaces, Parades, and Confrontational Aesthetics)

 

Carnivalesque Fashion

Alexander McQueen
Lady Gaga (meat dress)

 

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