worldSILLYweek is here AGAIN

 

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Thanks to the good sense of funding authorities this festival went underground as a ‘do it yourself festival’ that lets you transgress and if necessary, piss f•••witz off. And there is no shortage of them, so there is much to do in this festival.

It seems to me, blow in that I am, that worldSILLYweek is a sort of ‘Claytons Festival’, the one you have when you are not really having one – and nothing to do with pisstakin in public. It is a complicated idea and dare I say so it, its a rather silly one too. Transgress, and if necessary, 'pissin f•••witz off' a day for 11 days would be a civic service. And there is no shortage of them, so again you would think that there is much to do in this festival. 

In all my travels in Europe, Africa and Asia I been places where and when there is a ‘festival’ to celebrate or commemorate some culturally significant person or happening or something weird. What could be more silly than the Spanish “La Tomatina Festival” or Hungary’s Busójárás, Mohács, or the Spanish Baby Jumping Festival. And, Belinerz, well they really know how to be silly year round with silly ART everywhere all the time. 

And then there is Tunisia's International Festival of the Sahara that celebrates the rich culture of the Sahara Desert. If you can celebrate a geographic desert in a desert why not give it a go in a cultural desert?

Launceston really does need to take this festival onto the streets and out from hiding. There is so very much pisssssss to be taken it’s a crying shame not to take it. Actually, it all needs to be bottled. Now there’s an idea, LAUNCESTON PISS BOTTLING FESTIVAL. Oh my goodness David Walsh will grab that one and run with it while the GOOD BURGERS OF LAUNCESTON sit around asking if they’ll be invited to the party ... or to donate. 

Someone will need to explain that to them and transgress by pissin f•••witz off someone who needs a sense of humour implanted somewhere. And there is no shortage of them, f•••witz that is, so again there is much to do in this festival. 

And thinking about it, during their meetings the GOOD BURGERS do extraordinarily weird things for extraordinary reasons and so much so as their urine would bring an extraordinary price on the international art market.

In the time that I’ve been in Tasmania I’ve been struck by people’s inability to let go and celebrate. Dark MoFo is on the cusp of falling into a hole and I think that is not to do with COVID-19. It’s actually to do with Tasmanians inability the explore, really explore, something less than, or is it more than, an ordinary idea. OUTCOME MEDIOCRITY! 

But there is that mid-winter nude swim in Hobart. AND breakin NEWS, Launceston is, I have heard, weeeelllll ... going to have a NONnude swim that is nothing to do with worldSILLYweek. I rest my case your honour.

Dark MoFo may well join worldSILLYweek as a DIY underground thingo ... something less than a festival. Even then I wonder if Tasmanians, and especially Launcestonians, have the wit to celebrate anything, or in this case transgressively in the local lingo, do anything like ‘takindarBLOODYpizz’, and I mean really transgress and piss f•••witz off. 

Me, I’m watching the space from the sidelines to see what happens and it’ll be educational.

Dr Luther