Produced during an artist residency in Northeim, Germany, with the support of the KSN Northeim scholarship in 2010.
HEIM
HEIM is the portrait of an average small town in Germany. 12 Citizens of Northeim were cast through local newspaper ads to tell their favourite jokes on their home couches disguised with animal masks.
Jokes have a strong connection to the subconscious. They mostly serve the social need to establish a connection between teller and listener. If you can laugh about the same joke, you probably have the same moral, cultural or intellectual background. In various ways jokes discuss most common themes of society, such as values, hierarchies, dreams, or mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion.
