The Center for Austrian and German Studies at Ben Gurion University together with the Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol and the Austrian Cultural Forum Tel Aviv looks forward to hosting a humorous evening dedicated to the analysis of laughter with experts from Austria and Israel:
Olga Kagan, BGU Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics
Roee Rosen, Israeli Artist
Nina Tabassomi, Curator Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol
The event takes place online next Monday, 8 March at 7:30 pm
Please use the following zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/859477680
Please join us next Monday and Bring Your Own Joke!
The Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol is the biggest and probably most important public contemporary art gallery in Innsbruck and Tyrol, Austria. In March 2020, due to Covid-19, the Taxispalais was forced to close its exhibition “LACHEN / LAUGHING", which also featured the Israeli artist Roee Rosen. The exhibition focused on laughing as a complex phenomenon that results from liminal situations and which functions as both the product and trigger of strong emotions.
In these pandemic times, the mechanisms behind laughing and laughter are the focus of renewed interest. The Center for Austrian and German Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (CAGS) is organizing a virtual event focusing on laughter and humor in all its cultural complexities. The evening will bring together the curator of the exhibition “LACHEN / LAUGHING," Nina Tabassomi, the Israeli artist Roee Rosen, whose works were exhibited, and Ben Gurion University's Olga Kagan, who will contribute her expertise on the linguistics of humor.
The event will consider artistic and theoretic approaches and propose ways to reconceptualize the topic from different angles, such as from a cultural, sociological, and linguistic point of view.
