Laughing Strategies is an artistic and social investigation into the politics of laughing that interrogates the thin line between coping mechanisms and complicity. In a time when public art interventions often oscillate between feel-good spectacles and uninspired displays of neutrality, the open lab asks a harder question: What does it mean to laugh in the face of crisis? Is laughter a radical act of joy that defies despair, or a dangerous detachment that numbs us to urgency and responsibility?

LAUGHING STRATEGIES / Disaster girl meme / ATI Collective, space&designstrategies – University of Arts Linz - Photo: David Roth
LAUGHING STRATEGIES
ATI Collective (IT/IR/TR/AR), space&designstrategies – University of Arts Linz (AT)
POSTCITY, First Floor, Pavilion against Indifference
Mi. 3. Sep. 2025
11:00
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13:00
Do. 4. Sep. 2025
11:00
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13:00
Sprache //
EN
Credits
ATI Collective: Matteo Locci, Natalia Agati, Basak Tuna, Edoardo Fabbri, Panagiotis Samsarelos, Emanuele Caporrella I Ayan Rezaei I Students of space&designstrategies, University of Arts Linz: Yu Chuming, Charlotte Vetter, Moritz Gregor Böttjer, Viktoria Hauser, Leonardo Cattaneo, Sophie Morelli, Katharina Steinbüchler, Gaia Tovaglia