The Elastic Circus of the Revolution is dedicated to the creation of new forms, genres, discourses and artifacts in a variety of artistic and literary arenas. ECR is a fluid and flexible entity generating innovative works, often engaging in the representation of obscure and forgotten topics, peoples, and events.
Throughout the years and from its beginning, The Elastic Circus of the Revolution has been a framework, a container, a troupe, facilitating the creation of works at the vanguarde of several realms, aspiring to fashion new disciplinary formations. From the Single Edition Literary Artifacts (SELAs) to textallations and performances, from clandestine interventions to conceptual creations, ECR rigorously challenges given forms to search for the new and the liberating dynamics that can be found in post-category creative work — that space where one can create new conceptions of the world and fashion new relationships with the self and others. ECR’s rigorous work is also deeply rooted in research, teaching, practice, and the overcoming of the conventional. Theory and practice. Poetics and Politics. Multi-, Trans- and Neodisciplinary.
ECR has operated since the early 2000s from a decentered space, and from geographically and platformally differentiated loci: Harlem, New York; Brooklyn, New York (Red Hook and Clinton Hill); the Zona Colonial in the Dominican Republic; Paris; online and in-person; many parts of the brain and the being; out in the open, under-the-radar, and definitely through all sorts of clandestine modalities.
The Elastic Circus of the Revolution was founded and remains fronted by Amir Parsa. A number of people are engaged on a regular basis (The Troupe) while other participants get involved with ECR for particular pieces and projects (The Players). ECR hopes to chart new territories and generate new ways of thinking, creating, being and living.
The Elastic Circus of the Revolution
(A troupe. An idea. A vibe. A publishing venture. A radical political troupe. ECR constitutes all of this and allows itself to morph into a number of ventures. Press. Players. Prints. Across disciplines. Across fields. A framework for radical and avant-garde work, as well as pragmatic procedures for implementation. An Atlas of the Elastic Circus of the Revolution coming one day…)