N.A.Toˇ is an international project that combines activism and clowning. It brings together activists, clowns and performers. They share and create surprising, entertaining and disobedient forms of civic activism. In addition to workshops, lectures and discussions, various performative and clown performances and happenings take place within and in connection with N.A.Toˇ.
N.A.Toˇ follows Florent Golfier's Atlas project. Florent, as an activist clown Atlas, guided people around various cities as part of guided walks. Atlas familiarized them with global problems that humanity has to deal with, and they tried to radicalise participants to start their own form of poetic protest. At one point during the walk, Atlas asked participants to put their noses on and join the clownocratic Nose Assembly for Tomorrow, which would make a clownish attempt to change the state of the world. Various meetings during this project and beyond led Florent to the decision to initiate the creation of a stable network of people involved in N.A.Toˇ.
The N.A.Toˇ network has been slowly growing through individual meetings since 2023. The N.A.Toˇ crew announces an open call for each meeting separately. Assemblies consist of workshops, discussions, lectures and plenums, and the N.A.Toˇ crew places great emphasis on the possibility of co-creation of the program by the participants. Selected parts of each assembly are open to the broad public.
N.A.Toˇ is governed by the principle of radical openness. Anyone can join it. Do not hesitate to contact us at nose-assembly@posteo.net
Organising team N.A.Toˇ #3: Kiara Gezels, Florent Golfier-Brechmann, Ondřej Holba, Csenge Kelecsényi, Jakub Liška
Production: tYhle, INspirál, Theater der Unterdrückten Wien
The first meeting of N.A.Toˇ took place on 23–26 March 2023 in Brno. It was hosted by Terén - Field of Performing Arts. The program of the four-day workshop consisted of seminars, workshops, plenums, a program created by the participants and a happening in the streets of Brno.
Organising team of N.A.Toˇ #1: Laura Brechmann, Florent Golfier, Ondřej Holba, Barbora Liška, Jakub Liška Production: tYhle, Roman Zmrzlý Special thanks to: Terén – pole performativního umění, Pomezí o.s., Theater of the Oppressed Vienna (TdU Wien), Rhythms of Resistance Brno and Vienna, Supporters of the crowdfunding campaign, Tři Ocásci and Good Karma Catering.
The second meeting N.A.Toˇ took place 4–9 July 2023. It was hosted by Impulshaus. The meeting took place in a former school in the beautiful Austrian mountains and it had a strong community character. In addition to the workshop program, an essential part of N.A.To #2 was community life associated with collective cooking, cleaning and trips around the Maria Schutz area.
Organising team of N.A.Toˇ #2: Laura Brechmann, Florent Golfier, Ondřej Holba, Barbora Liška, Jakub Liška Production: Roman Zmrzlý
N.A.To ˇ #3 is part of the Nose assembly for tomorrow project, which is being created in cooperation with tYhle, TdU Wien and Magyar Zsonglőr Egyesület with the support of the European Union.
Project coordinator: Florent Golfier-Brechmann
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
N.A.Toˇ #1 and N.A.Toˇ #2 were implemented with the financial participation of the European Union through the National Recovery Plan and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.