Take part in our new participatory exhibition, The Joke’s On Us, centring on Joke Stack by Peter Liversidge, part of the Government Art Collection. You can take home jokes originally written by British comedians… and leave your jokes for our walls!
We’re making a dynamic, daring and… devilishly amusing contribution to Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019. From 11 April 2019 we’ll be hosting Peter Liversidge’s Joke Stack, part of the Government Art Collection. Liversidge, a contemporary British artist preoccupied with humour, wrote letters to comedians asking for their favourite jokes. Twelve replies, screen-printed and framed, will be displayed at The Mill.
However we’re not a typical art gallery – we have a culture of creativity, participation and playful disobedience. So as part of the show you can take home one of the jokes, printed and piled in stacks. See the example in the picture – they are massive! Fancy your own piece of art at home? Or making the biggest paper aeroplane ever?
Not only can you take home a bit of the Government Art Collection, you can contribute your own hilarious masterpiece to The Joke’s on Us! show. What’s your best joke? Do you have a family favourite? Tell us your jokes, in any language and from around the world; as long as they are not offensive we will display them alongside the prestigious artworks. Who’s joke will get the most laughs?
As part of the show, we will be filming and showing people from our community telling jokes, and organising joke-telling workshops (jokeshops?) with Waltham Forest comedians.
The Joke’s On Us is part of a Borough of Culture 2019 programme of Government Art Collection artworks on display across Waltham Forest.
Take part!
Please send us your jokes on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, using the hashtag #TheJokesOnUs, email info@themillE17.org or post them in our Jokebox at The Mill.
