'Happiness' art installation arrives at the 'Days of Art & Science' Festival in Leiden by Ana Fernandez / SOPA Images
In his work, 'Happiness' theatermaker and visual Dutch artist Dries Verhoeven explores the world of artificial happiness that is increasingly available to us in the form of drugs, painkillers, and antidepressants. A small concrete building is situated in the public space manned by Amy, a human-looking robot. She talks to us about different drugs, painkillers, and antidepressants we can use to tweak our emotional reality. The work explores the zone where the human and the artificial merge.
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