The Artist's Joke, edited by Jennifer Higgie

The Artist's Joke, edited by Jennifer Higgie is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art, its well funny, its a good laugh, well for art theory it is.


Favourite quote:


'Goofing-off requires developing a fine-tuned sense of what it means to pause long enough and distance oneself far enough from worldly objects and events to recognise their illusory dimension and thereby reinvest the world with wonder. In order to really goof-off well, the instrumental sense of purpose deeply ingrained in Western ego and epistemology must be abandoned.'


Fluxus Performance and humour 1995
Kristine Stiles

New Video Work - Slow Clap (Scorn 1) and Slow Clap (Scorn 2)

Slow Clap (Scorn 1) and Slow Clap (Scorn 2) works with the idea of repetition and the absurd, to applaud the viewer for watching the piece becomes the audience and the audience the performer. To slow clap is a critical act of disdain but the nature of this slow clap has an immensity of its own.

Slow Clap (Scorn 1) 2011 from Alexander Small on Vimeo.

Slow Clap (Scorn 2) 2011 from Alexander Small on Vimeo.

Gasworks Exhibition Project