For my project I wanted to get people thinking about the people that bring them joy. I chose this topic because I feel like sometimes we overlook and under appreciate the value and impact we have on each other. So I took my idea from my last project and expanded on that. I found my audience by walking around and asking if people had a couple of minutes to talk about their happiness. My audience was people that I had met before and people that I had not, it was interesting to see the comfort level that the people that I just met had in me. I started each interaction with Im going to give you some instructions then ask you some questions related to relaxing and reflecting. First I started by telling them to get comfortable, then I instructed them to close their eyes and think of someone that makes them happy. Then I said once you smile or 5 minutes have passed you are done your time starts now. Most of them smiled almost immediately. Then I told them to open their eyes and asked how they feel right now, the answers were words like good and grateful. Then I asked them to share who they thought about and what memorie or time made them feel this way to get them to think about who causes their happiness. And finally I said, does this person know that they are important to your happiness? If not, I encourage you to tell them. Most of them said that their person should know or that they hope that they do. I then later urged them to let that person know because if that causes them happiness it surely will cause their person happiness. My goal was to get people to really try and think about who is important to them. After I asked them these questions most of them said something like I liked having time to think about this because this is something we all know but sometimes take advantage of. Then the conversations grew to who’s happiness they impact and so on.
What artists or other projects have influenced or inspired your own project? People, readings and quotes that helped cultivate an idea
READ: Hispanic Executive | Interview with Shaun Leonardo - Performance, Pedagogy, and Philosophy
“I’m glad, because I think it probably was intimidating for a lot of young minds. Yes. I offer that narrative with the recognition that, over my life and professional career, I have witnessed young people be easily derailed when they don’t see themselves in the representation of who is creating.” Representation is very important for children growing up because they are able to see someone like them with a goal and something to look forward to achieving. I really liked this because made me think how everything in intertwined. Seeing representation is very important for our emotions and how we view each other and the world.
The Art Of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide To Making The Impossible Possible by Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
“Our culture shapes what we think is good and bad, beautiful and ugly, just and unjust, normal and strange. It lays the foundation for politics as it outlines the contours of our very notions of what is possible. This culture makes us as we make it…If we want to change the world, and sustain that change, we have to leave new webs of significance. We need to change culture.” Pg 163 This section starts to talk about Little culture Verse Culture. Culture changes everything we do, every way we act, respond to situations, the way that we know how to live. In the end if we want to change it we are going to have to do it. Kind of like style for change something for the long run. If we never take time to think about what makes us happy then we would never have that appreciation for it.
The Art of Activism
1) “Creativity isn't a product, it's a process. it's a process that helps us to notice new objects and events, make new connections, and see the world in different ways. it's a process that helps us think of, sketch, experiment, and build innovative things. a process that helps us Act in a different Manner and imagine New Horizons within which to act. most important, creativity is a process that all of us can use to become artistic activists.” pg51 I liked this quote because it explains that we need to look at things differently.
Towards a Curatorial Activism | Dr. Maura Reilly
"What I do know is that, as we venture forward into this new century, it is imperative that art institutions examine not only their putative subjects, but their ideological biases as well. This will involve rethinking methodologies and iconographies for what they say, and do not say, about the constructions of race, gender, class and nation.” pg22
I also really liked how this quote summed everything up in the end. This one isn't just suggesting it's demanding change on many things not just the subjects but the ideological biases. They even suggest rethinking methods and such and the way that they construct their things; and even more importantly how they go about race gender class and nation. Its important to take time to reflect on how things make us feel.
Resources
Admin. (2022, August 17). What is happiness and why is it important? . THIS WAY UP. https://thiswayup.org.au/what-is-happiness-and-why-is-it-important/
Has info on happiness and how to improve it and ways to prioritize it.
Today’s to-do: Start a happy-memory collection. happify.com. (n.d.). https://www.happify.com/hd/why-reflecting-on-happy-memories-is-good-for-you-happify-healthy-habits/#:~:text=And%2C%20according%20to%20the%20same,them%20down%20when%20they%20occur.
I liked this website because it explains the importance of reflecting on our happiness.
Courtney E. Ackerman, MA. (2024, October 1). What is happiness and why is it important? (+ definition). PositivePsychology.com. https://positivepsychology.com/what-is-happiness/
This website explains why we need happiness.
Sussex Publishers. (n.d.). The consequence of not pursuing happiness. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/meditation-modern-life/201411/the-consequence-not-pursuing-happiness
This last one talks about the negative things that happen without happiness.
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