File under: ExhibitionConceptual Art
Jonathan Monk
The Sound of Laughter Isn’t Necessarily Funny (Tape)
The Sound of Laughter Isn’t Necessarily Funny is a catalogue in the form of a cassette tape by Jonathan Monk published after the show The Sound of Laughter Isn’t Necessarily Funny held in Monk’s home town of Leicester. The catalogue comprises a five panel concertina booklet printed in gold and black with jewel case and prison cassette.
British artist Jonathan Monk regularly replays, recasts and re-examines seminal works of Conceptual and Minimal art by variously witty, ingenious and irreverent means. In Monk’s work there is always interplay between art history and autobiography, in this work the personal takes prominence
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