STAND-UP COMEDY AND DISCUSSION: MILA PANIC. JOKES

Jokes can be very powerful tools in reshaping the visitor’s perspectives on given topics, but also many often defend their speech against moral criticism by asserting that “it was meant as a joke”. At a time when cancel culture has made stand-up comedy a risky form of expression, Mila Panić deems it important to examine its role particularly within the contemporary art context. 

Humour is often used to critique, subvert, and change dominant cultural narratives. Yet the sound of active laughter is very rarely heard in the context of an art exhibition. Through visual art and stand-up comedy, Mila Panić uses humour to create liberating moments, laugh and engage with topics such as selective empathy, politics, war, displacement or everyday situations. In her practice, stand-up comedy and visual art come from the same place – from a spectrum of irritation, anger and madness, and what lies beneath all is fear. These elements became the basis for her to reshape visitors’ perspectives.

Stand-up comedy will be followed by the conversation between Mila Panić and Adriana Tranca.

Mila Panić is a Bosnian-born artist and stand-up comedian, based in Berlin. Her practice ranges from personalised documentation to highly poetic visual and discursive elements, from drawings to found footage, photographs and stand-up comedy.

Adriana Tranca is an independent curator, researcher and writer. She has founded CURRENTS, a festival that combines contemporary art with live electronic music. She was involved in organizing Speculative Properties, a protest exhibition against real estate speculation in Berlin-Kreuzberg that forced artists out of their studios. 

Free admission
Language: English 
Duration: 30 min stand-up and discussion
Doors open at 19:00. Performance starts at 19:30.