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The Belgian video artists in this exhibition had fun performing, conceptualizing funny performances by individuals other than themselves, and generating fun within the audience which attended the exhibition. Curiously enough, the curators produced only about 300 elusive words by way of explanation, rather than a millstone. www.american.edu/cas/katzen/museum/2008nov_onthaasting.cfm Barry Alpert On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:27:38 +1100 Max Richards posted: Will Self in firstpost online... It's like this friend of mine who's been trying to write The History of Fun for the past decade or so. It goes without saying that fun, of its very nature, is a state of mind that's atemporal, and therefore a history of it is a contradiction in terms; but beyond this there's the inescapable feeling that this, of all books, should be the one blurbed: "You'll have as much fun reading it as it's author did writing it!" Whereas, the truth is that writing about fun has proved nothing but a millstone around the poor man's neck, and at times he's verged on the suicidal.