I just finished the program for the next Encyclopedia Show, a project that I was really honored to be asked to do.
The show is best described by the blurb on their website:
The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists and experts from many disciplines to use their individual talents to present a different verbal encyclopedia entry each month. The Encyclopedia Show endeavors to build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent lovingkindness. Though the show is accredited by the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene, it is our ongoing mission to chafe against logic and proof, find meaning in obfuscation, and wrest truth from fact once and for all.
The theme for this show was Exercise and I was assigned the task of coming up with a program that expressed “Exercise as substitution for real experience.” So I made a fake catalogue of children’s exercise equipment. I ran out of time with the project. I really wanted to design a machine that allowed you to play capture the flag with it, as well as something that simulated you finding a cool lizard on the ground and you poking it with a stick.
Still, I really like how it turned out. And the slice of pizza that says “No Swimming” under it makes me laugh every time. I don’t know why.
Click here to see the full program.
