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Humour

Humour can prompt relief, connection and joy, and help us experience total senselessness, just as it can function as a powerful rhetorical device, enriching our ability to process the trials and tribulations of life in late-capitalism; rife with inequity, precarity, political corruption, polarization, and violence. How are artists using humour as a wilful instrument of resistance, transgression, and critique? How is it employed as a tactic to cultivate forms of engagement that expand one’s conception of reality? Can humour’s ability to soften, calm, and rehumanize us make us more capable in our roles as agents of change?