Troy Rogers returns to Miami as a co-facilitator of the newly launched BELLY: global Biosocial Endurance Laughter & Longevity Year-zero summit, a FETA-supported initiative responding to an emergent cultural discrepancy: the global laughter quotient has not kept pace with the exponential rise of human-generated absurdities.
As part of this ongoing research into endurance-based somatic performativity, Rogers will lead a gentle introductory participatory endurance laughing session amid the Orchid Market on Lincoln Road, in collaboration with Juraj Kojš, Dimitry Saïd Chamy, Betzaida Ferrer, and other members of the Futurist Gardening Group. Drawing on traditions such as laughing yoga, competitive endurance laughter, and psychophysiological feedback training, Rogers has developed a new assistive endurance-laughter augmentation device, incorporating auditory feedback networks to support participants as they explore sustainable, embodied laughter practices.
Visitors will encounter the premiere public deployment of Rogers’ new device, the Laughter Amplification Feedback Facilitator (LAFF)—a compact auditory feedback system engineered to support sustained laughter across psychophysiological thresholds. LAFF’s design draws upon principles from endurance-laughter modalities, sensory feedback networks, and performance-based wellness frameworks.
Sunday marks the device’s first public deployment, offered in service to the broader effort to modestly counterbalance what public health researchers are increasing recognizing as a global crisis. Market visitors are invited to witness, participate, or simply drift through the sonic ecology of collective, endurance-based levity.
Addressing a Global Crisis Through Participatory Levity
UNFAS’s recently published LAG Index (Laughter-Absurdity Globabl Gap Index) indicates that humanity’s collective laughter output is significantly lagging behind the accelerating rise of anthropogenic absurdities—a discrepancy linked by researchers to stress dysregulation, social fragmentation, and diminished expressive resilience. In response, WHO-ICHRY’s (World Health Organization – International Commission on Humor Resilience & Youth) GLOOM (Global Laughter Output Optimization Mandate) initiative calls for “emergency measures to promote sustainable laughter generation and transpersonal levity infrastructures.”
While these declarations may appear abstract, BELLY grounds them in a lived, participatory format: laughter as a civic action, a public resource, and a renewable cultural practice.
“Endurance laughter is not simply a wellness technique—it’s a form of embodied futurism, a community-scaled improvisation, and a countermeasure to global affective depletion,” says Rogers. “LAFF isn’t meant to replace human laughter but to scaffold and amplify it at a time when many individuals feel overmatched by the scale of the world’s absurdities.”
A High-Concept, High-Spirit Moment in Miami Art Week
BELLY joins a constellation of Miami Art Week programming, offering a rare intervention at the intersection of speculative policy, somatic performance, environmental futurism, and public joy. The Orchid Market activation marks the first of several BELLY-affiliated micro-gatherings emerging across the city throughout the week.
The public is invited to attend, observe, or join in—a low-stakes, high-spirits portal into the possibility that collective laughter may yet be counted among the world’s renewable, regenerative resources.
Event Details
BELLY Activation: Endurance Laughing Session + LAFF Device Premiere
Date: Sunday, December 7, 2025
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Orchid Market, Euclid Oval, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
Presented by: FETA – Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts
Participants: Troy Rogers, Juraj Kojš, Dimitry Saïd Chamy, Betzaida Ferrer, + other Futurist Gardening Group members