MA Ü. Theater- und Medienpraxis (Summer School) - The Comic Edge

Dozent:innen: Dr. Stefanie Husel
Kurzname: Th-u Medienpraxis
Kurs-Nr.: 05.155.625
Kurstyp: Übung

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches

E.Weitz

Inhalt

This workshop will interweave studio exercises and theoretical engagement to explore how comic practice acquires and deploys a political edge. The humour transaction always seeks a validation of prejudice, which, in most cases, provides the affective charge for full-bodied laughter. It is by nature conservative, trading on biases already held by the laughers – there are, however, strategies of unsettling this polarity, which will inform the main thrust of the workshop.
To analyse all the vectors of influence at the site of any comic utterance, one must look at all those involved – who’s joking? who’s listening? at whose expense is the joke being made? – as well as the sociocultural context, joking technique and joking material. We will look both at classic theorists and contemporary humour scholars and submit some of these lines of thought to practical exploration. We will delve into existing dramatic texts as well as carrying out a series of practical ‘experiments’.

Termine

Datum (Wochentag)	Zeit	Ort
12.07.2014 (Samstag)	09:30 - 17:00	00 143 Linke Aula 1312 - Aulagebäude/Mensa I
13.07.2014 (Sonntag)	09:30 - 17:00	00 143 Linke Aula 1312 - Aulagebäude/Mensa I