The 5th Room of Laughter

A casual gesture, a chance encounter becomes a continuous play without beginning or end.

In silence, there are no witty punchlines and no artistic climax other than presence. The Clown of Silence needs no meaning, no problem, and no conflict to find his play in the here and now. A gleam of light on the wall, the swaying of a twig in the wind, or the amazed and eager gaze of a child, which he captures for a brief moment and, as a master of the silent moment, connects with eternity, is enough for him.

The Clown of Silence perceives everything intensely and diversely. In this awareness, he experiences things as beautiful that seem banal to others. His experience becomes tangible and visible through the interplay of thought, feeling, and action. He draws his impulses equally from the mind and the body. Thought and feeling are not contradictory. The Clown of Silence embodies connectedness. To express this interrelationship and connection, the absorption of inner and outer impulses must be pursued with the same intensity as the artistic task of radiating.

By connecting with everything external, sustained by his inner experience, and perceiving and absorbing everything, the clown trains the simultaneous presence of the "observer." From a kind of bird's eye view, he observes his actions without being separated from them.

The Involvement of the Observer

In this experience, there is no self that observes the world, but only a self that looks around in a world. Play is an activity that is felt both internally and observed externally. Added to this is the perception and appreciation of present feelings, sensations, and emotions from a broader perspective and with greater depth and evaluation. The clown of silence excludes nothing. Instead of changing, he seeks to connect. His goal is to dissolve the separation of humanity from being.

He is driven by the question:

• What would humor do to get things flowing?!

The clown of silence answers this question by facing presence. Presence is real. It is not socially mediated and cannot be faked. Therefore, no specific action leads to presence. Presence is a state.

The clown of silence creates the space in which presence can unfold.