Comedy in Crises

Chrisoula Lionis is a writer and cultural producer based between Athens, Greece, and Manchester, UK. She is author of Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film (2016/2022), Co-Director of pedagogical platform Artists for Artists, and Research Fellow on AHRC project Understanding Displacement Aesthetics at the University of Manchester.

• 1. Laughing in an Emergency: Weaponising Humour in Contemporary Art.- Fictional Pasts, Experimental Futures: Humour, Art and Temporality.- 2 Humour, Critical Inversion and the ‘Age of Commemoration’: An Interview with Stefanos Tsivopoulos.- 3 “And a More Offensive Spectacle I Cannot Recall”: Humour in …No Other Symptoms: Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky (1999) by Suzanne Treister.- 4 Humour, Collective Identities and Speculative Futures: An Interview with Larissa Sansour.- Towards an Art Historical Humour: Art Markets and Art Historical Legacies.- 5 Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus: A Comic Anti-Monument.- 6 After Salzmann: Thoughts on Humour, Erasure, Photography and Palestine.- 7 The Significance of Authorial ‘Play Spaces’ for Seriously Funny Art.- Outsiders Out, and Insiders In: Humour, Art and Identity.- 8 Humour as Heterotopic Friction.- 9 Making "Funny" Art During the Greek Crisis... so what?.- 10 Positioning Humour within Indigenous Paradigms: An Interview with Richard Bell.- 11 Tragedies Interrupted: An Interview with Voluspa Jarpa.- A Turn to the Right: Humour and Spectres of Violence.- 12 Art as Archive: Subversive Humour and Authenticity in Brazilian art.- 13 Thoughts and Prayers: Laughter and Parody in Post-Columbine America.- 14 Is Art a Means for Resistance in Times of Global Crisis? Public Art, Humour and De-Fictionalization of Far-Right Narratives in Today’s Italy.