Naked as a Jaybird was the first in a series of workshops/performances/interventions that contributed towards the research and development of Party for Freedom. It was delivered as part of Artsadmin’s Weekender programme in February 2011.

from the press release:

The starting point for this Weekender is Oreet Ashery’s wide interest in the ethos of performance as a marker of risk-taking and liberation from the restraints and values of the state, religion, homogeneity, artistic conventions and so forth. Looking back at three disparate counterculture groups from the 1960s-70s; Naked as a Jaybird (California), Collective Actions (Moscow),  and Scratch Orchestra (London), aspects of DIY nakedness, actions, and experimental sound, will be considered in relation to the persistent ability of dissent to fail and to reinvent itself. With rightwing policies sweeping across Europe, this is an interesting and necessary time to revaluate performative modes of dissent.