The Happy Ending Story project as an artistic research is based on an artistic collaboration which results in a collective publication co-created by professional artists and non-artists alike. It combines the competences of many people from different fields. The form of the project is by definition open, without expert diagnoses and ambitions. It is not so much result-oriented as it is rather focused on deficiencies and creating space for independent thoughts and their circulation.
The "Happy ending story" project, referring to the issue of catastrophe and the end of times, has become an attempt to work through this loss, but also a reflection on the extent to which this loss has already taken place. It is something like mourning, but difficult to survive without the support of a community.
The publication is relational in nature and draws on the potential for interaction and participation of those who can influence the shape of the work. It thus excludes monological artistic practices that attribute creative agency mainly to one artist or artists.
The field of interest is the testing of narrative potentials, the deepening of optical awareness, conscious and empathetic perception and action in a world of global interdependence, politics of exclusion, and growing inequalities.
The strategy of democratization of knowledge, inclusiveness of art creation and networking of local creative habitats, collectives for building social awareness and community can be an effective form of resistance against neoliberal practices leading to commodification of knowledge and art.