The Happython... a “dynamic” ?
One of the objectives of this project is to favour a responsible, happy, community-centred attitude, through playful and interactive approaches. This which started in 1998, was first called « Alors, heureux(se) ? ». Then it became « l'Espace du Bonheur », « Le Fil du Bonheur » and finally « Happython» for modelling, audiovisual and communicational projects in cities.
Given the success encountered by this approach both by the people interviewing and those interviewed and also by the people supervising the project, we found a phenomenon of spontaneous adhesion in which the numerous points of convergence and aptitudes allowed for the expansion of such a new dynamic.
A « Happiness Virus » was born and...well, sorry about that, but it seems you’ve just been contaminated yourself ! unless you already were Maybe we should have warned you but this all happened so quickly… sorry, this is now too late ! You’re about to be very happy !
How is the whole thing related to Art ?
We have spent a long time 1looking at our differences maybe it is now time to look for 1our similarities such as : we were all born, we all do our best to try to be happy, and we will all die soon or later ! Ouch, I know, but that’s the way it is !
Looking at it from an artistic point of view, it is a mere passage from the frame of the painting to the "frame" of reference : we colour the world with our ideas, just like a painter spreads colours on his painting. We all have a potentiality for elegance and creativity, we have to educate ourselves through our decisions and their consequences.
To discern and to watch make it possible to perceive, to observe, not to feel petrified by other people’s look, and this is how our world becomes brighter. Communicating this, through this dynamic favours stabilization of such ability. The more crazy people we are to believe in something, the closer to reality it gets ! Some crazy things can make us happy :) !
We have reached an interesting step in the evolution of artistic representation. Ourtradition focused on appearance of things and the way they were represented. We are progressively changing our point of view and the attention is set to the process of changing, transformation,construction and emerging.
Today, to sculpt one’s own « frame » of reference, one’s own « material of thoughts » installations of ideas, images, believes, perceiving that life has the colour of the look we create, perceiving that life is an artistic opportunity.
In the beginning of the 20th century, the artist Marcel Duchamp said it was the “viewer that made the picture" ! Today, couldn’t we answer himthat it is the person that makes the viewer. The individual 1has a creating power over his own « virtual » universe of images1 and he’s responsible for its « installation », to create it in an elegant and flexible manner. By the way he/she will have assembled his/her own images, he/she will apprehend the reality one way or another, and he/she will contaminate other people with his/her art.1
Our reality is an 1ever moving work of art1 We have altogether accepted this state; this implicit collective agreement between co-creators that we all are, stabilises this collective creation.
Vision
"When it becomes obvious that our Attention Capital feeds our values, convictions and actions, we will naturally chose to invest this capital into the values, convictions and actions that create the happiness and the harmony of the world we share. We will then collectively reach a new form of aesthetics that will awaken us to our real deep nature, to an ethic of being that will inspire us to become elegant vectors of evolution, armed with a smile in the shape of a boomerang."
Extract from the book: " You are the artist of your life !… even on those rainy Monday mornings, you know what I mean", by the author of the Happython project.
In anyway, how can I help the happiness virus propagating ? Do I have to…
« Watch out ! Don’t let yourself be contaminated by the happiness virus……. Too late ! »
- create city exhibitions, communication networks, happenings, with cities and/or any other structure, organisation, association ready to offer this dynamic some showing out.
- develop solidarity networks, inter-cities co-creativity, inter-regionally and internationally
- co-create agreements between cities, social, cultural, private organisations to keep this dynamic running and develop those original exhibitions.
- open a space towards new cooperation contexts twined cities, regions, companies, etc. and new medias to have this dynamic develop round and round and round !
- favours abilities in organisation, communication, initiatives, proper sense, modelling, in order to make professional a team of people associated to the project, making them operational in many contexts.
- develop a way of seeing things, where technology can be associated to « human » and multidimensional meaningful projects.
- expose creations from the real world, encourage virtual graphic creation, musical creation, and besides, co-creation.
- via the internet platform, exhibitions, medias, various cooperations, develop exchanges and data base to follow, analyse, predict various flows to encourage multidimensional impacts of virtual interface towards real, and vice versa, favour connections between everyone’s own environment and global reality.