08/02/2009

Humour as a form of escapism within contemporary art

By using humour we can reveal the hidden structures of the ordered world that we live in. Even the simplest jokes tear holes in our language or social structure, rendering them momentarily absurd. It is this shift between reality and unreality that creates humour, which enables us to escape from our role of responsibility in our normal ordered world.
by Phil Thompson.

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