The CheerUp
2007

The CheerUp aims to lift the spirits. This sound piece hopes to create a positive experience by applauding the user with various levels of enthusiasm each time it is activated.

Marketing happiness in a culture of immediate gratification, is an area that facinates the artist. In this piece she explores happiness and it’s symptoms as product. It plays with the notion of user as performer.

How it works
The user steps on a sensor mat. This activates applause. The user smiles. Their photo is taken. They keep stepping on and off the mat and their invisible audience becomes more and more appreciative.

The CheerUp has been show at Filmbase Dublin as part of Something in the wires NCAD exhibition. The Joy Gallery Dublin as part of Affects becoming relations between and in Catalyst Arts Centre Belfast as part of Utopia Dystopia.

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