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Janks Archive Collection Event: Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Janks Archive conducts an investigation of insult humor—an ancient oral tradition—from cultures around the world. While intentions appear, at first, to be cruel, “janks” are in fact an integral aspect of human interaction, used as much to strengthen camaraderie as to establish dominance. The project documents this tradition through crowdsourcing and field recording, in which participants recite “janks” from memory and the collective gathers contextual information in an attempt to trace origins.

They have recorded people telling “janks” on video in 10 cities in 7 countries, and will be interviewing Queens residents as part of the Queens International 2016.

Offsite: Flushing Meadows Corona Park











When: Sat., Jun. 4, 2016 at 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Queens Museum
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
718-592-9700
Price: Free
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Janks Archive conducts an investigation of insult humor—an ancient oral tradition—from cultures around the world. While intentions appear, at first, to be cruel, “janks” are in fact an integral aspect of human interaction, used as much to strengthen camaraderie as to establish dominance. The project documents this tradition through crowdsourcing and field recording, in which participants recite “janks” from memory and the collective gathers contextual information in an attempt to trace origins.

They have recorded people telling “janks” on video in 10 cities in 7 countries, and will be interviewing Queens residents as part of the Queens International 2016.

Offsite: Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Buy tickets/get more info now