Bring The Happy

Bring The Happy

A project about happiness. An attempt to mark and map the happy memories from around the world. A public art installation, a digital archive and a live performance.

The project took over empty spaces in city centres filling them with giant maps of that city. Passers-by were invited to leave a memory or moment of happiness from their lives, recording where it took place on the map, what it was and how happy it made them feel.

Mediums

Acrylic

Light

Web

Partners

Leeds City Council

British Council

Warwick arts centre

Arc Stockton

Barnsley Civic

Kalieder

The Albany

Brighton Festival

Tbilisi International Festival

Cultural Spring

Bring the Happy sign.

Bring the happy map installation Tbilisi.

Bring the Happy is a project about happiness.
It was originally made in response closing high streets, taking over empty spaces in city centres filling them with giant maps of that city. Passers-by were invited to leave a memory or moment of happiness from their lives, recording where it took place on the map, what it was and how happy it made them feel. Glass markers were placed on the physical map in the spot of each memory and the height of the marker was determined by how happy each person said the memory was. Over time a glass cityscape emerged, a new emotional geography of a place.
Each memory was also marked onto a permanent online map hosting thousands of memories from all over the world.
In each city the work culminated in an explosive live event, where the stories collected were retold, as a living portrait of a place. The live event is a collaboration with the band Hope and Social.

Press

BBC All human life is here.
The Guardian This is not about a happy-clappy happiness but things that illuminate an inner life and express an emotional world, encouraging the examined life along the border of mental wellbeing and a sense of meaning