You say something, but mean the exact opposite, and expect your counterpart to have the same state of knowledge as you so they get the joke. Roughly speaking, this is the simplest form of irony.
Seven videos that play with irony – sometimes clearly, sometimes not. Sometimes they use the index and middle fingers to suggest quotation marks, but sometimes they simply leave us puzzled. Olaf Stüber, Berlin
Retrospektive / Do, 23. April 2015 | 13:00 / Lagerhalle
We've got it!
Zwischen Vier und Sechs > Corinna Schnitt / DE 1997/98 / 6:00
Video Art Manual > Keren Cytter / DE, UK 2011 / 15:00
Woher kommt die Kunst? Oder: Die Blüte des Menschen > Manuel Graf / DE 2006 / 7:00
Q&A An Episode Of Slideshow Johnny > Martin Skauen / DE 2012 / 6:00
Klub2000 – Rom, Paris, Marzahn > Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani / DE 1998 / 11:00
Inferno > Yael Bartana / IL 2013 / 22:00