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A project by Anna Bromley, Michael Fesca, Teena Lange, Suza Husse and Jana Sotzko
nGbK, New Society for Visual Arts, 28 February – 29 March 2015 With workshops by Jeremiah Day, Oreet Ashery, Sol Calero, and Christopher Kline, plus talks, screenings, and performances by Preciosa de Joya, Amit Epstein, The Yes Men and Peng! Collective, Dolanbay, Anja Ibsch and Lorenzo Sandoval. |
The quick joke, the ready-witted repartee, ironic distance – as omnipresent as they are in the permanent sitcom of our short attention spans, they do have a bad reputation: They prevent us from facing problems and getting serious. But seriousness and emotional turmoil are just the false, incapacitating opposite of a bad joke. This project develops the other, liberating witticism, the irony that makes thought possible in the first place, and laughter that enables action.
The walkable office landscape by Sol Calero is an open lab for research, exchange and performance inviting people to follow the curatorial and editorial work on the exhibition and publication Redemption Jokes The Bureau was continuously open during the regular opening hours, current announcements were daily made on a calendar both online and in the entrance of the space. |
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