Podcast #3 – (Mis)translating Humor Globally

with Julia Jarrett and Vivian Zech in conversation with Gregory Williams (English)

Boston University Professor Gregory Williams speaks with two CM participants about his talk, “Borderline Offensive: Political Satire and the Limits of Locational Humor” organized by the Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Vienna. Among other things, Williams discusses the challenges that face artists who work with political satire in a local context and their work’s translatability in a global digital space.

Gregory Williams; Zentrum für Politische Schönheit [Center for Political Beauty]; Holocaust Memorial in Bornhagen; Philipp Ruch; Christoph Schlingensief; Permission to Laugh: Humor and Politics in Contemporary German Art (2012); Christoph Büchel; Please Love Austria (2000); Translatability of humor across linguistic barriers; Rosemarie Trockel; Parafiction; Political correctness; Paolo Virno