Overview
- Investigates why humour becomes pronounced in art practice in times of emergency
- Highlights voices of art practitioners through artist statements and interviews with renowned artists
- Reveals why artists from diverse geographies draw upon strategies of humour to mediate collective trauma
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Fictional Pasts, Experimental Futures: Humour, Art and Temporality
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Towards an Art Historical Humour: Art Markets and Art Historical Legacies
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Outsiders Out, and Insiders In: Humour, Art and Identity
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A Turn to the Right: Humour and Spectres of Violence
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About this book
Comedy in Crises provides a novel contribution to an emerging comedy studies field, offering a fresh approach and understanding toward both the motivation and reception of humour in diverse contemporary art contexts. Drawing together research by artists, theorists, curators, and historians from around the world (from Palestine, to Greece, Brazil, and Indigenous Australia), it provides new insight into how humour is weaponised in contemporary art – focusing on its role in negotiating complex cultural identities, the expectations of art markets, the impact of historical legacies, as well as its role in bolstering cultural resilience. In so doing, this book explores a vital, yet under-explored, aspect of contemporary art. Over the last decade, we have witnessed an overwhelming emphasis on experiences of precarity and emergency in contemporary art discourse, reflecting a popular view that the decade following the outbreak of the global financial crisis has been marked by an intersection of constant crises (refugee crisis, sovereign debt crisis, environmental disaster, COVID). Comedy in Crises offers innovative analysis of the relationship between this context and the growing use of humour by artists from around the world, making clear the vital role of laughter in mediating the collective trauma that takes shape today in a period of protracted crisis.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Chrisoula Lionis is a writer and cultural producer based between Athens, Greece, and Manchester, UK. She is author of Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film (2016/2022), Co-Director of pedagogical platform Artists for Artists, and Research Fellow on AHRC project Understanding Displacement Aesthetics at the University of Manchester.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Comedy in Crises
Book Subtitle: Weaponising Humour in Contemporary Art
Editors: Chrisoula Lionis
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18961-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18960-9Published: 15 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18963-0Published: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18961-6Published: 13 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-4332
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 224
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comedy Studies, Audio-Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Arts