Laughing in a Foreign Language

Created: 28/01/2008

Laughing in a Foreign Language is an unusual exhibition which explores the role of laughter, humour and culture in contemporary art. In a time of increasing globalisation, this international exhibition explores whether humour can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds and memories or whether laughter can act as bridge between cultures and as a catalyst for understanding the unfamiliar.

Bringing together more than 70 videos, photographs and interactive installation works from 30 international artists the exhibition runs from now until Sunday 13 April at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, SE1. For more details of this and the 'Revolution in Photography' exhibition by one of Russia's leading post-revolution artists, Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) see the Hayward Gallery website at www.hayward.org.uk.
 

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