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A capture of Singapore’s evolving relationship with happiness that you can touch, fold, lick, tear.

Happy Hows!?

Designers: Van Lim & Ween
Research Assistants: Gaetan Boisson & Nabs Lukman
Curator: Mama Magnet

Artists:
Anastasiya · ArunDitha · Chris Sim · Chok Si Xuan · Clarrot · Cybercesspool · Eduardo Enrique · Emma Chan · Empyreal · Eric Foenander · Gen Yip · Grace Hong · Gracie McCubbin · Hause · HAFI · Highnunchicken · Hilary Yeo · John WIP · Juan Qi An · Juls · Likefireatsea · M4IM (Music 4 Interrupted Minds) · Maria Clare Khoo · Masuri Mazlan · Michelle Underground · Natasha Hassan · New World Plaza · Ozy Kozy · Peng · HelloPigu · Reza Hasni · Rin Tachihara · Siah · Shaiful Risan · Shivram Gopinath · Speak Cryptic · State.land · Sui Yao · Van Lim · Yadin Moha · Zhou

Printing: Offset printing on acid free FSC® Certified paper
Edition: 300
Pages: 108pp
Size: 177 x 250mm
ISBN: 978-981-18-8777-2
Please note orders will be shipped by October 2024.

SGD $48

Stockists: SINGAPORE
- Basheer Graphics (231 Bain St, #04-19, S180231)
- Singapore Art Book Fair 2024 via artist @HAHAHAFI’s booth [October 25 -27 only]
- Van Lim’s Studio (90 Goodman Road, Blk G, S439053) [By appointment only from November 2024]

Over 10 days in January 2022, 12,888 people attended Happy House at Tanjong Pagar Distripark for Singapore Art Week. Featuring multimedia experiential installations that combined creative outputs from artists as well as the public, Happy House invited visitors to consider whether there was happiness in their pursuit of it.
 
Co-curated and produced by the late Eileen Chan (Cats On Crack) and Tulika Ahuja (Mama Magnet), driven by a shared curiosity of Singapore’s complicated relationship with the H-word. Happy House called on the famous observational joke with its origins in the 90’s, that Singapore’s markers of happiness, often conflated with materialism, could be boiled down to a handy 5 Cs - Cash, Condo, Credit Card, Car, Country Club. 

As part of the exhibition, visitors were asked to fill in ‘departure cards’ with what 5Cs they associated with their own happiness. The answers ranged from curry to car sex and everything in between. 1802 entries were received. 

Is cash still king? Do condos and country clubs feed our soul any more? 

Data has been cleaned, sorted and visualised with responses from 40 artists and designers. And ready for your eyes as Happy Hows!?