The possibility of tracking emotions is key to the dynamics that control the neoliberal economy and to the ongoing, and often overwhelming, phenomenon of an immaterial and structurally unstable market of “affects.” The exhibition Our Happy Life is a three-act study on the new spatial models founded on the measurement of happiness; including a dissection of the political project behind methods of city data collection and application, an investigation of the emotional component of the real estate market, and a demystification of the idea of social space. Our Happy Life is a narrative anti-manual which explores and interprets recent paradigms that are shaping our present perception of place, giving new identity to the materials of the private space of our homes, reconceiving our working environments, and transforming development itself through the planning of our cities. Our Happy Life Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism exhibition 8 May to 13 October 2019
Stefano Graziani, photographer. Helliwell, J., Layard, R., & Sachs, J., World Happiness Report 2018, New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Curator: Francesco Garutti Curatorial team: Irene Chin, Jacqueline Meyer, CCA Exhibition design: Bernard Dubois, Brussels Visual identity: OK-RM, London
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Studying the forces that shape and transform human relationships with the environment, Lisa Hirmer’s work spans visual art, social practice, and writing. In We Are Weather , she explores how we recognize and represent environmental change at a moment when the Holocene, a geological era of climate stability, gives way to a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which humans act as a planet-scale force. This exhibition examines how we move from simply observing to registering these losses and understanding their accumulating effects.
Curated by Shauna McCabe; text by Elwood Jimmy
Lisa Hirmer, Watching, Dull Edges (the northern hemisphere of a 23°27’ tilt ), 2017, photograph, 16 x 24”
Lisa Hirmer: We Are Weather
January 17 – April 7, 2019
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Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath Thursday, March 14, 2019 to Monday, September 2, 2019 National Gallery of Canada Canadian Photography Institute Galleries 380 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4 Canada
Dave Heath, Kansas City, Missouri (detail), 1967. Gelatin silver print (printed 1968), 18.7 x 27.3 cm. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, 2011.67.23. © Howard Greenberg Gallery and Stephen Bulger Gallery.
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