Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Le Poisson de' Avril @ Animamus Salon

I led an opening activity at the latest Animamus Art Salon,
which was held at The Schoolhouse!

Since it was April Fool's day, I invited people to make paper fish as part of the French tradition of  Le Poisson d'Avril.  This is when people place paper fish on other people's backs, and if they don't notice then they're the "fool." (Like a less aggressive "kick me" sign.)  *All pics by Andrew Bridge
By the end of the salon, the person with the best looking fish on them was rewarded with one of my zines. The person with the MOST fish on them was deemed the "fool"...and that person ended up being ME! (I was so sleepy from Alyson's video shoot that I couldn't fight off my fishy attackers.) So I got the dunce hat and crumpled-paper dumped on me by Ventiko and Amy Doran!
Here are the drawings of fish that I made in case you'd like to print them off and use next year...

3 comments:

Maryana said...

That is so cool I love that idea, check out my blog. http://myreadingjourney-maryana.blogspot.com/2012/04/steal-like-artist.html

Maryana said...

Hi I am Maryana. In school right now we are doing a thing called a exhibition. We each have to choose our passion and for 8 weeks we work on following our passion and have a story about the 8 weeks. My passion is art. And you are one of the people who inspired me to do art. I was wondering if maybe we could email and I could ask you a few questions. Thanks!

orangerful said...

I was not aware of this tradition but I LOVE the idea of having a little gathering like this! I work at a public library - is it okay if I use your fish for next year's April Fool's day? I could see both the patrons AND staff having fun with this :) Thank you so much for sharing!

--Sam