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8/3/2013

Happiness Now?

Guest Projects, London

curated by Giulia Casalini & Diana Georgiou

Organisational assistant: Laura Di Nicolantonio

The persistent throbbing imperative to 'BE HAPPY' has converted almost every aspect of communal humanity into an exchange value. Happiness seems to have become inextricably linked with consumption: a disposable value, instantly gratifying and on demand.

Happiness is not a pre-packaged product that can be purchased off the shelf. It is not a condition and/or situation, which is fixed and determined by unitary social constructs. It is NOT an imperative and it is even less so when it forces us to abide by a hypocritical configuration of happiness that subordinates rather than liberates.

The question is: whose happiness are we adopting and what sort of happiness are we perpetuating? To what extent are we willing to subsist in pursuing happiness when the failure to do so can be equally gratifying? How powerful, vigorous and free are alternative cultural forms of production? How do they contest dominant forms of happiness, or what contradictions do they mediate, resolve or fail?

Our approach will stress feminist, queer and affective methodologies as alternatives to the mainstream interpretations of happiness and imperatives of success, work, consumption and belonging. The artists selected reflect on the notion of happiness in order to elaborate new values, failures and escapades.

Artists:

Laura Cooper, Oliver Cronk, Petra Kubisova, Anna Lopez, Amanda Millis and Linda Stupart


Programme:

SAT 09 MAR

18:00 – 22:30 Private View: Laura Cooper, Oliver Cronk, Petra Kubisova, Anna Lopez, Amanda Millis and Linda Stupart

Anna Lopez, “Happiness is...” (action at Broadway Market)


SUN 10 MAR

Anna Lopez, “Happiness is...” (action at Tesco, Morning Lane)


SAT 16 MAR

14:00 – 16:00 The practicing artist, Amanda Millis, labours in the gallery space

Anna Lopez, “Happiness is...” (action at Ridley Market)

18:00 – 21:30 Nik Rawlings, Carrie Topley and Nena Zinovieff perform Oliver Cronk’s piece


SUN 17 MAR

14:00 – 16:00 The practicing artist, Amanda Millis, labours in the gallery space


THU 21 MAR

19:00 – 22:30 Mikey Weinkove: “Talkaoke” with special guests Jesse Darling (post-media artist, critical thinker) and Dr. Nina Power (writer, activist and senior lecturer at Roehampton University)


FRI 22 MAR

14:00 – 16:00 The practicing artist, Amanda Millis, labours in the gallery space


SAT 23 MAR

16:00 – 19:00 Exploring the Fruits of Vagicraft(ing) with Amanda Millis


WED 27 MAR

19:00 – 22:30 Screening “Body consumed: identification and appropriation in contemporary artists’ videos” with works from Aneta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Johannes Evers, Oriana Fox, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, Niklas Laustiola and Nadja Verena Marcin

Preview: 9 March 2013, 6pm - 10:30pm

Sunbury House, 1 Andrews Row,
E8 4QL, London
Opening Time: Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm - 6pm
www.happinessnow.yolasite.com/

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