Comedy helps test or explore what it means to say "we." By constantly pushing boundaries, it helps explore what boundaries people desire or can tolerate.
Lauren Berlant & Simone Ngai
Is this a joke to you? comprises of a screening of short films by Ania Nowak and Melanie Jame Wolf followed by a conversation between the artists and moderator Liz Rosenfeld. This discussion will explore the use of comedy in the three’s work as artists who all move between live choreographic practices and performance for the screen.
What is an embodied camera in queer-feminist film practices? How is comedy useful in “going deeper, faster” in political and social critique? When does the absurd lend itself to explorations of gender and power relations? Why is silly so helpful in dealing with the deadly serious? This conversation departs from the use of humor and slapstick in video material in Wolf's current solo performance MIRA FUCHS (a reprise) to talk about comedy in various feminist moving image practices.
(IN ENGLISH)
Additional information
With: Melanie Jame Wolf, Ania Nowak, Liz Rosenfeld
Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Dates
November 2025
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