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Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible. — Kalan Sherrard

From my earliest youth I've been riddled with angst about the homogeneity of the world and have tried to do things to break it: attacking abercrombie & fitch in the mall with a plunger, posting strange statues made of garbage around my town, different kinds of interventions, parades and experiments. I've always cared a lot about difference. — Kalan Sherrard

Most of the things are either not communicable through human expression or they're top secret. Also I'm working on being a better person, and becoming more disciplined. — Kalan Sherrard

I do what I do because it seems to be critically missing in the world and I want to see it not-happen. — Kalan Sherrard

I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone. — Kalan Sherrard

[Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened. — Kalan Sherrard

I also eschew the identity of "puppeteer" it is a concept that blurs the boundaries of discrete objects and persons. I do think Anarchist Nihilist Puppet Show is my day job. — Kalan Sherrard

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art. — Kalan Sherrard

Puppets and dolls are the gateways between human beings and objects. There are tons of cliches to spout about puppetry and animism, the primacy of the object, attacking anthropocentric worldviews, etc, and while there were always puppets around, I started working with them to deal with the times I knew I wouldn't be able to collaborate with other humans, to have a team. — Kalan Sherrard

I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me. — Kalan Sherrard

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art. — Kalan Sherrard

I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance. — Kalan Sherrard

Life Lessons by Kalan Sherrard

  1. Kalan Sherrard's work demonstrates the power of creativity and collaboration to create meaningful and impactful art.
  2. His work also shows the importance of taking risks and pushing boundaries in order to create something unique and powerful.
  3. Finally, his work serves as a reminder that art can be used to express powerful messages and to create meaningful connections between people.
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