Spontaneous and joyful, subversive or amusing, play can take many forms in daily life as well as in contemporary art. Historian and cultural Theorist, Johan Huizinga gives one …show more content…
Wegman’s video art in the 1970s specifically explores incongruity to deliver humour to a greater level. Marina Warner highlights that ‘’artists transform inert material things, animating them with fantasy, infusing objects with meaning through memories of childhood, or in imitation of children's imaginative games’’ (Warner, M. ‘Game On’ 2005).This can be seen in Wegmans short films in which he demonstrates the use of minimal elements such as his body and the dog ‘Man Ray’ to create unexpected moments or scenarios of conceptual humour. In the short film ‘The Spelling Lesson’ (1974), Wegman corrects the dog’s spelling test by implying that the dog spelt ‘out’ and ‘park’ correctly and then explains to the dog ‘’You spelled it B-E-E-C-H’’ instead of