OFFICIAL PERFORMA SELECTION

at Jack the Pelican 487 Driggs Ave. Williamsburg

Sat, Nov 5, 9–12 midnight

Wed, Nov 9, 7–9pm

Sat, Nov 12, 9–midnight

Michelle Handelman's Laughing Lounge is
inspired by the German cult film Kamikaze 1989,
in which surveillance monitors broadcast a laughing 
contest 24 hrs a day, and the laughing clubs of
India, where people laugh in unison for physical
and spiritual healing. 

Handelman turns the front space of the gallery into
a laughing lounge where the public can sit, drink and
laugh till it hurts. 

Surveillance cameras project the hysteria onto
mirrored performers revolving like a human disco
ball.

Sounds mixed by Vincent Baker (aka 7hz).

The Laughing Lounge brings the public together
for a laughing marathon leaving behind the rational
in order to get to the real stuff deep inside…

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Visit PERFORMA at http://05.performa-arts.org/