Project | The Happiness Project : In the House
Artist Bloc has had the pleasure of collaborating with amazing artists in creating a living art space with works inspired by Charles Spearin’s (Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think) latest record The Happiness Project.
Inspired by the album The Happiness Project, seven artists or groups of artists each take a song and mount an original installation within a home, each filling a room. The projects consist of an interactive element which forces the viewer to work a little harder to make things ‘happen’ much like the protagonists of the album had to work to achieve their happiness.
The Happiness Project: In The House will next be held in Toronto for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in October of 2011.
Project Posts | The Happiness Project : In the House
The Happiness Project: In the House presented by Artist Bloc, turns the album The Happiness Project by Charles Spearin into an interactive, installation-based exhibit within the walls of a residential setting. Local artists are enlisted to interpret songs from the album and are challenged to weave their own experience of the songs, as well as their own definition of happiness, into the works. Each artists’ installation becomes a unique expression of joy and an exercise in welcoming the community into an intimate community space. This exhibit has already been hosted in Montreal to critical acclaim.
The Happiness Project : In the House Fundraiser took place at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom on July 26th 2011.
Sexy Merlin, Charles Spearin and Circle Research were some of our musical guests!
With the support of the Toronto Arts Council Artist Bloc will host a fundraising event July 26th 2011 at The Gladstone Hotel. It is our goal that day, to raise money through ticket sales, and an exclusive array of silent auction and raffle items, which will help to bring The Happiness Project : In the House to Torontonians on October 1st of 2011, when the exhibition will open as part of Scotiabank’s Nuit Blanche.
The Happiness Project : In the House presented by Artist Bloc and Apple Crisp Festival in Kingston, Canada in March of 2010.
Here are some photos from The Happiness Project: In the House presented by Artist Bloc at POP Montreal.
