Events

Laughter Gym with Laughter Network
Marcus Coates
Doug Fishbone
About Laughter, Seriously: Laughlab
Jake Chapman
Exhibition Tour with Mami Kataoka
Laughing Out Loud
Ghazel
Bureau of Universal Merriment

BUREAU OF UNIVERSAL MERRIMENT
Learn how to laugh in foreign language in 13 easy steps!
Friday 25 January 6pm-10pm
Saturday 26 January 3pm-10pm
Upper Galleries, The Hayward

Bureau of Universal Merriment (BUM) offers a unique method enabling rapid improvement of multilingual laughing skills. Series of exercises includes artist talks with Shimabuku, Cao Fei and Nedko Solakov, projections of videos by John Bock, David Shrigley, Guy Ben-Ner and Julian Rosefeldt, performance by Oskar Dawicki (Azorro), laughter gym and multilingual karaoke. Participants will also have a chance to participate in the scientific experiment aiming to find the most contagious laugh.