Fight or flight (or laugh) We fight or. These two opposite types of response represent our behaviour in society. the good vs evil,right vs wrong binary logic helps us act and choose between attack and escape in everyday life.we perceive danger,we feel rage,we are wronged,we witness injustice: our bodies` physiological changes make us behave selecting one of the two contrary orientations.lt is all about "feeling", a steady steady shift between attraction and repulsion regulating our actions as wild animals struggling to survive. But man is the one and only animal gifted with the faculty to laugh. Humour is a different point of view, both external and distant, complicating things. this 2013 Biennial wonders about this apparently useless weird activity, which has no purpose or aim and, for this reason,is a resemblance to games,art and philosophy. Nevertheless (or just because of that) , is not laughing an essential and necessary activity to live with ourselves and survive in our relationships? Humour is "disengaged" by definition: it needs some kind of practical and ideological motivation suspension. Committed comedy, the one wanting to persuade us of whicchever truth, is not funny. Laughing means anesthetizing the heart: detaching from the external pressures,losing interest in consequences,and rejecting worries This year`s subject forces artists to think about himself and his. role.The contest,hence, asks a paradoxical:why should we laugh instead offight or flight? Evio Hermas Ercoli Artistic Director