Sensitivity Training

Hg. Olav Westphalen Livia Paldi

Sensitivity Training – Art and Humour in Nervous Times

In an eclectic selection of contributions by artists, humorists and writers, this book outlines the operations of ambiguous humor, of jokes that are impossible to reduce to any one meaning and argues that they are of the utmost importance for our civilization.

Table of Contents

Orientation

Margarita Dorovska
A Note from the Director
Lívia Páldi
Comedy Disrupted
Cecilia Edefalk
From “The Legacy of Hilma af Klint”
Alex Kwartler
If I am one thing can I not also be its opposite?
Roee Rosen
The Standard Edition
Annette Geiger
What Are We Really Laughing At? On the Origins of Cartooning
Olav Westphalen
Sensitivity Training: Curatorial Statement
Kasia Fudakowski
Reflections on Repetitive Comic Cruelty
Samuel Nyholm
Interstellar Stavros
Olav Westphalen
So Nervous
Pamela Lins
On Not Being Not Quirky
Mike Bouchet
Six Film Synopses from the “New New Age Film Festival”
Andreas Fägerskiöld
Which is what follows.
David Geers
Smart Contract: Theses on Humour and New Online Territories
Tatenda Mbudzi
Pages from My Joke Book
Lars & Olav
Lars & Olav at Moderna Bar

Artist Biographies
Image Credits
Imprint