Collaborators: Lee Stickells
Dimensions: 47cm wide x 3cm deep x 190cm high
Materials: Digital print
The agonistic vocabulary is a litany of engagement, a set of terms extracted from Beyond Utopia – the screenplay.
Published:
Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley (eds) Beyond Utopia: Surface Tension Supplement No. 5, Los Angeles / Berlin: Errant Bodies Press, 2012
Collaborators: Robin Wilson.
Dimensions / materials: 25 x 18cm; 41 pages, full colour printed screenplay within published book, Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley (eds), Beyond Utopia (Los Angeles/Berlin: Errant Bodies Press, 2012).
Supported by: Arts and Humanities Research Council and University of the West of England.
Beyond Utopia takes the form of a screenplay for a film never intended to be made. The screenplay restages the process and exchanges of a project that queries the function of utopian thinking in urban development and spatial culture. The project aimed to establish a critical dialogue with institutions of city design and to find new sites of productive tension between the “real” and the “fictional”. Submitting a utopian architectural proposal for a real site in London to the scrutiny of the institutions that dominate the design and programming of city space, the project enacted a form of playful provocation, drifting in and though the procedures, systems and languages of planning, architecture and city development. As a fiction, the utopian work gained life as it was recounted and discussed, its narrative shared, activated and engaged through dialogue with and by officials and reviewers.
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Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley (editors) (authors of Beyond Utopia – the screenplay) Beyond Utopia, Surface Tension Supplement No. 5 published by Los Angeles/Berlin: Errant Bodies Press, 2012. ISBN : 978-0-9827439-3-5. Distributed by DAP , New York. 126 page / colour.
The Surface Tension Supplement series focuses on contemporary spatial and sited research and practice. Series editors: Ken Ehrlich & Brandon LaBelle.
Designed by: fliegende Teilchen, Berlin.
Funding received by: Arts & Humanities Research Council and University of the West of England.
Essays and works responding to the screenplay by:
Maria Fusco – writer and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London;
Brandon LaBelle – artist, Professor of New Media, University of Bergen;
Marie-Anne McQuay – curator;
Paul O’Neill – curator, artist and writer;
Elizabeth Price – artist;
Jane Rendell – writer and Vice Dean of Research at the Bartlett, University College London;
Lee Stickells – senior lecturer in architecture and urban design, University of Sydney;
Robin Wilson – writer on architecture, art and landscape.
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