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title: stand-up teacher
media: video/performance
duration: 4:54
year: 2022

context: stand-up teacher is an experiment in deliberately confusing the roles of teacher and stand-up comedian, to explore the intersections of the uses of humor and instruction. the work draws parallels between audience and students, and subverts the expectations of (student/audience) participation by offering closed, impossible invitations. what does a pedagogical practice have to learn from a practice of comedy, and vice versa? where do i, specifically, exist between the two? and why, after all, did the chicken cross the road?

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