On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:58 AM, Sarah Cook wrote:
> i would like to post in response to your comments about FUN in
> relation to this work, but we have yet to get philip's permission to
> make his email replies to the artists public here. so instead let's
> talk more broadly...
By coincidence, there is a post on the Artforum diary about the role of
fun in the work of Fischli & Weiss:
["Fun" is a favorite word in the F & W lexicon, and they use the term
with post-Warholian promiscuousness—which implies, of course, that
requisite irony. Fischli, speaking of fun, had just then returned to
our table with Beatrix Ruf, of the Kunsthalle Basel, and Mendes Bürgi
of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Conscious they had been gone for
while, Fischli feigned a "just-had-a-joint" dopiness. Are we having fun
yet?]
http://artforum.com/diary/id=11190
There was also an article in the Guardian a while ago about why the
British don't think Germans have a sense of humor -- it has to do with
the difference between English and German and the dependence on word
play in English humor that the structure of German can't translate. In
other words, there is no such thing as a German Monty Python. Does
schadenfreude come close?
BTW: why isn't everyone drinking champagne in Basel?
Robbin Murphy
http://post.thing.net
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