PEL Presents PvI#121: Meat Suit Dolls w/ Maddie Mutations
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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
51 min
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4 chapters
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Who is Maddie Mutations and what is her background in clowning and doll styling?
This is Philosophy versus Improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two, and maybe you, the audience, get something out of it as well.
Greetings! It is Mary Hines here, bringing the improvisational prowess, and I am joined by my co-host. My
name is Mark Linsonmeyer, bringing the philosophical prowess today. And we are joined by a very special guest.
Not in mutations, that's me. I'm a multimedia artist living in Los Angeles my whole life. I do weird performance art, music stuff, and I am a doll stylist, which overlaps sculpture stuff and weird niche Hollywood commercial business stuff.
The joy and glee that is bubbling up from my insides is should probably be like contained and studied. That's so exciting.
I was not warned about doll stylist, so I I
wasn't either
Mark. No one is warned about doll stylist.
I love clowning. I've always studied clown adjacent, and how I do my style of acting feels very clown, but I have yet to study it myself. A lot of people say that. Yeah, and I'm intuitive enough to know like, mm, this is a thing, I think. So clowning is something that's really calling to me and moving through me. Another thing is like puppeteering. So my antennae. Are out for people who are out, haha, double entendra, who are out and like and doing it. And I went to uh Hollywood Friend Show. I love Outfitters Wig. Anyone who is in LA or anyone who is not in LA who wants a really great wig, the oldest wig shop in Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard, opened since 1969, creates all of the wigs for drag royalty TV.
It's like an An absolutely magical mecca that the owner is transforming into an LGBTQIA like performance incubator. So I'm on the team that's part of that, and it's really fucking exciting. And then so BB opened it up as a fringe venue, and Maddie was like, hi, I'm weird. I want to play here. Yeah. And she did an absolutely incredible. show called Doll Court that was happened in the middle of the wig shop. And I was just a gagagog. And whenever I meet a fellow unicorn like Maddie, I'm always like, I need to work with you. Like I want to know how your brain works. And I'm on a personal mission right now of more merriment and joy as a form of like activism and artivism.
That's beautiful. I like that a lot. Yeah, I feel like a lot of people look at clown and see how free we are and happy we are. Someone at the show at the Doll Court show said they were just crying at the end because of just the joy that they don't see that much in their life that was just displayed. But a lot of people either look at clown and look at how free we are and go, Oh, I feel like a negative thing about that. I feel like why why did they prep anything or why are they so like okay to look like they're failing on stage. And some people look at it and go, Oh, I want some of that. I want some of that freedom and that weirdness. And it's something it itches something I can't explain.
Maddie, do you think that some of people's resistance to the wacky free unbridled whimsy that is the energy of clown relates to their own resistances and fears about being seen and vulnerable?
Oh yeah. Yeah. So they're just Meaty question. Yum, yum, yum. The answer is yes. Yes. The answer is yes. It's probably an uncomfortableness with their own release, you know, and that there's some like work they gotta do, or it's just not their cup of tea. Some people don't like weird humor because they don't it's just not the thing that clicks for them. They maybe want more something more composed and eloquent. But I think clown is maybe for people who love that too. Like a lot of people from improv world and sketch world sometimes go, Oh, clown is separate. I'm like No, we're all the same, we're just a little bit different dials of each other.
I call it branches of the same tree. Stand up, improv, voiceover, clowning, like it's all branches of the same tree with a similar root structure.
Yeah. A lot of people from improv will, you know, have their whole education improv and then find clown, dip into clown for a year and then come back to improv when they're feel like they need a little more structure or they want to remember what they loved from their roots and then they do improv back for a year, then come back to clown.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Maddie Mutations and what is her background in clowning and doll styling?
0:04–8:55
2
What is the concept behind the immersive “Doll Court” show?
8:55–15:26
3
How do Maddie and the hosts describe the relationship between clowning and the fool?
15:26–30:34
4
Why do people resist the wild, unbridled whimsy of clowning?
30:34–51:54
Speakers
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