Humour Works / Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Bratislava, Berlin – March till December 2007

European artistic positions on work and precarious work in postfordist reality

Humour Works is an international artistic collaboration requestioning precarious work conditions in the context of the enlarged Europe. Due to the fact that it stimulates motivation, creativity, responsibility and personal attachment, the model of precarious, temporary and project-based work has generally become one of the most dominant work models. However, this model - adopted from arts and cultural field – is obviously economically, socially and politically exploited. Precarious work implies many contradictions absurd to the extent where a common sense reaction can’t be anything but a hilarious laughter.