Research tells us that we laugh for less than 6 minutes a day. This is surprisingly only a third of the time people laughed in the 1950s and we are correspondingly almost 20% less happy today than people were then.

World Domination is a fun and playful work of art that encourages laughter, whilst parodying evil, greed and the desire to control the world. It is a nonsense. It is a silly and carefree project that is happy and evil, playful and scary all at the same time.

It shows everyday people in ordinary spaces acting with playfulness, silliness and spontaneity, while the darker side to the work, the connotations of evil, greed, violence and dominance, act as a counterpoint. Perhaps it is the co-existence of these incongruous attributes that makes the work so engaging.

In the Pilot of World Domination, first performed during peak-hour on a tram in Melbourne, Sylvia directed Movements of Laughter that saw a carriage full of passengers join in with the silliness of the laughter.

This Pilot will be refined and further World Domination works will be performed.