RHYTHMIC, VOCALIZED, EXPIRATORY AND INVOLUNTARY ACTIONS
Video installation, 2004 |
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Humor and its role in society are the essence of the video
installation Rhythmic, Vocalized, Expiratory and Involuntary Actions.
The work is composed of a video and slide projection. The video projection
presents a series of videos, Jokes Told by., which show people from
various parts of the world telling jokes typical of their culture,
while the slide projection presents images of people from different
parts of the world laughing as they practice Laughter Yoga.
The jokes that characterize a particular environment offer insight
into society by exposing its stereotypes and clichés. They
have a relaxing effect on people, but they also provide an excellent
seismograph of the social conditions. Laughter Yoga is a therapy that
aims to cultivate the spirit of laughter. In Laughter Yoga people
laugh without any reason. The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek once
said that, on every level of our lives, we seem to be living more
and more with the thing deprived of its substance: you get beer without
alcohol, meat without fat, coffee without caffeine, and even virtual
sex without sex.
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