Description:

Mikhail Bakhtin describes the carnivalesque as a “world inside out” emphasizing its festive, spectacular and comical elements for a history of laughter. The videos documented in this catalogue are part of The Carnivalesque: Videos of A World Inside Out, an exhibition that explores the themes of laughter, irreverence, fragmentation and disembodiment, subversion of the ordinary, the grotesque body and the masquerade. Included in this catalogue is an essay by the curators Miriam Jordan and Julian Haladyn, as well as images and descriptions of videos by Danielle Abrams, Grade Point Average, Julian Haladyn, Su-Ying Lee, Miriam Jordan, Duncan MacKenzie, Mark Prier, Ana Rewakowicz, Cheryl Rondeau, and Even Tapper.