Our exciting new participatory art exhibition, The Joke’s On Us! launches on the 11th April. It is part of the Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019, featuring work from the Government Art Collection, and potentially showcasing your finest joke…
Display your joke next to a famous artwork
We are asking residents and people from anywhere in the world to tell us their best joke in any language, whether that be an old family favourite, a traditional knock-knock or cutting edge humour worthy of a stand-up routine.
As long as the joke isn’t offensive, it will be displayed alongside prestigious artwork from the Government Art Collection in the The Joke’s On Us! show between Thursday 11 April – Saturday 25 May. Come and see it at the exhibition launch on 11th April!
We put the Borough of Culture ‘through The Mill’
The Joke’s On Us! is an exciting addition to the Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019. The exhibition has been inspired by the artwork Joke Stack created by contemporary British artist Peter Liversidge. Joke Stack is owned by the Government Art Collection. They are lending it to The Mill for the duration of The Joke’s On Us! show.
Liversidge is an artist preoccupied with humour. To create Joke Stack he wrote letters to famous comedians asking for their favourite jokes. He then screen-printed and framed twelve replies. We will show these during The Joke’s on Us! exhibition, alongside the same jokes printed and piled in stacks of coloured paper. As well as contributing your jokes, visitors can also take home one of the famous jokes printed on the coloured paper. Fancy your own piece of art at home? Or making the biggest paper aeroplane ever?
Get involved!
The show will include films of people from the community telling jokes and joke-telling workshops with Waltham Forest comedians. Look out for the workshops, and let us know if you would like to be filmed.
Send @themille17 your jokes on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, using the hashtag #TheJokesOnUs, email info@themillE17.org or post them in our Jokebox at The Mill. We want jokes in any language, from around the world, and from any age group. Just please do not make them offensive.
Who’s joke will get the most laughs?
Find out more
The exhibition is curated by SRG Bennett, an artist and policy-maker who is part of The Mill’s Art Works team. Contact him via his website or on twitter.
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