the pursuit of happiness
charlie coffey
Charlie Coffey; "Map of South Pembrokeshire & Isle of Einsety", drawing (2007)
Charlie Coffey graduated in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in 2007 and is based in London. Recent shows include Deptford X 2008 (collaboration with Richard Hards) and New British Landscapes (curated by Sami Jalili) at Takecourage Gallery, London.
She has submitted two pieces, Map of South Pembrokeshire & Isle of Einsety and Perfekto Insulo, for inclusion in the show. Both works "are chiefly concerned with notions of communal living, utopianism and the sense of nostalgia often imbedded in discourse about utopian ideals and models of living”. The series explores the human pursuit of happiness through the presentation of historical documents relating to a fictitious attempt to establish a free community upon the island of Einsety. "I am interested in the motivations behind all sorts of utopian enterprises, be they maverick schemes operating at a micro level or larger-scale projects with far reaching implications. The point at which one's desire to improve their own personal circumstances crosses over into a kind of escapism; a disengagement from existing society.”
Michal Tkachenko
Michal Tkachenko is a Canadian visual artist. Based in the UK, Michal received her MA Fine Arts from the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, England. Her work has been exhibited across Canada, the United States, Africa and Europe and can be found in a number of collections. Michal is a recipient of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant.
"Professional councillors advice clients to do something selfless for others as a form of removing depression from oneself. Happiness seems a derivative of something completely unrelated to its own search.
"Deserving happiness also seems a fallacy. We no more deserve happiness than we deserve a good life. Says who? How do we judge what we must have? Where do these rights come from, particularly if our gain is someone else’s loss or continual “have-not”? Our rights are an illusion. In fact, 20 percent of the world has 80 percent of the resources, which makes me a feel a bit childish about complaining about not being happy when I have everything that our culture says should have produced that emotion."
Satisfaction with Life Index Map – published in White, A. (2007). A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge To Positive Psychology? Psychtalk 56, 17-20. Map coloured according to The World Map of Happiness, Adrian White, Analytic Social Psychologist, University of Leicester. "The data on SWB [Subjective Well-Being] was extracted from a meta-analysis by Marks, Abdallah, Simms & Thompson (2006).
Green = most happy
Blue
Purple
Orange
Red = least happy
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