SUPER MAMUT PARTY

Political Clown · Performance · Participatory Art · Comic
Helsinki, Finland · 2015-2017

A activism clown project combining performance, circus, workshops and visual storytelling. Super Mamut Party introduced a group of superheroes confronting intolerance through humour, poetry, music and paty. The project also included the Be a Super Mamu! workshop programme and a Super Mamut wall comic, expanding the fictional universe into a visual narrative about democracy, migration, power and belonging.

Role
Concept · Project Lead · Clown Performer 

Comic
Concept: Pablo Alvarez
Illustration & graphic design: Radek Karkulowski

The comic imagines a fictional 2017 Finland in which Parliament has been taken over by an extremist group and the Super Mamut characters intervene as alternative superheroes. Its protagonists — Kullervo, Loki, Diogenes and Sakina — combine mythology, clown archetypes and contemporary social questions.

Credits
Concept & project: Pablo Alvarez
Character script: Perttu Turunen
Illustration & graphic design: Radek Karkulowski
Installation: Amal Laala
Performance & workshops: Natural Markus · Perttu Turunen · Pablo Alvarez · Amira Khalifa
Costume design: Outi Pyy / Remake
Make-up: Taija Turkia

Production: SummArt
Organisation: Circo Criollo