I've lived mostly in Paris for the past few years. I'm a conceptual / comic performance artist, writer, and filmmaker, and am currently working on a surreal travel / comedy podcast that will take me to the Balkans, and maybe even further.

I've lived for a year in an art commune, then made a documentary about it. I've founded a semi-imaginary city-state. I've opened an experimental performance art venue in my bedroom, and I've covered a couple of walls with memoirs in tiny writing. I like to tell stories and jokes, listen to music, dance to it, and eat kebab. And pizza.

If you'd like to know more, go here: https://www.facebook.com/ryangalerartist/ or here: http://youtube.com/rye13rjg or here http://ryangaler.tumblr.com or google me and see what you find!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to meet creative, open-minded people, see how they live, and share with them some of my own stories.

Interests

Performance art, comedy, writing, cinema, surrealism

reading, languages

street/trash/recycled art

progressive education, especially free schools and unschooling

• arts
• culture
• writing
• street art
• film making
• education
• cooking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• spoken word
• hiking
• table tennis
• teaching
• languages
• performance art
• comedy

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Death in Venice , Last Tango in Paris, Bergman, Godard, Visconti, Lang, Guy Maddin

Books: Jonathan Baumbach, David Sedaris
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Music: New Order, Los Campesinos!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Opened an experimental performance art venue in my bedroom

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach all of the languages I know to a certain extent, I can share lots of travel stories.

Would love to learn to cook more!

I also am quite good with motion film cameras...not tech-savvy, though.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Mexico, Palestine, Poland, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Spain, Ukraine, United States

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