MACIUNAS LAUGHTER (CHOIR EDITION), 2015 – ongoing. “Fluxus was a joke!” – said George Maciunas on his death bed. He had a very unusual sense of irony in him, which was also a quality of many of Fluxus works. Despite their playful attitude, Fluxus artists were serious about changing the balance of power in the art world. They did not agree with the authority of museums to determine the “high art”. Constituted between human an animal world, laugh is an atavistic feature, both gesture and language. Maciunas considered it to be the only form of human expression which transforms the whole body into a ”corporeal concretism”. Laughter is a conceptual exercise, our unconscious performance, “an opening in which self unfolds”, and thus a way to evoke personality. Maciunas was a complex men, who until this day remains enigmatic and mythic. I decided to learn his laughter (to adapt it to my own rather than mimic) as I found it to be his feature that is the most constant, the part of his personality that hasn’t changed despite all of his – not always easy - life events (laughter is not a quality we learn over life, like speaking for example, but it is already embedded in our identities). ‘Storing’ his laugher in my body I can hand it down and share it with other people, meaning that the choir performs the laughter only after my tutoring (without hearing the original sound of Maciunas’). I have chosen to work with a choir as laughter never appears as singular act but always as multiplicity, and communicate what could not be said with words. Thus, laughing together becomes a social practice, but also, a musical and spiritual experience.