Laughing with, Laughing at
Humour and Revolution in the 2019 Venice Pavilions of Chile and Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4380192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chrisoula Lionis (0000-0001-6307-3790, University of Manchester, UK [email protected], corresponding author), Alkisti Efthymiou (0000-0002-2277-1274, PhD Candidate, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece [email protected]) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 39-58 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cja.2021.390204 |
| OpenAlex | W3195603143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
The autumn of 2019 was characterised by an eruption of global protests, including Lebanon, Iraq, Ecuador, Chile, and Egypt. The velocity with which these protests emerged nurtured a sense that the Global South 'was on the march'. At the same time as these events were rapidly unfolding, the world's premier mass art exhibition, the Venice Biennale, was in its final weeks. Harnessing discourse analysis, participant observation, and collaborative auto-ethnography, the authors draw together a comparative study of the Chilean and Egyptian pavilions and assess the impact of ongoing and suspended revolutionary histories of both nations. Approaching art as a form of 'practical aesthetics' (Bennett 2012) and focusing on humour as an aesthetic quality enmeshed in complex political temporalities, this article analyses the relationship between humour, contemporary art, and revolution, demonstrating how the laughter facilitated by these two pavilions negotiates understandings of national pasts, and uprisings in the present
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Exhibition · Laughter · Literature · Media studies · Participant observation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Visual arts · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Music History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |