What Next
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What next: Utopia?
picture tomorrow deel 6
What next: Utopia?
13 mei t/m 9 juli 2017
"Five hundred years ago, the British philosopher Thomas More invented an ideal society with his Utopia. Utopia has since stood for an unattainable perfect world. More is of course not the only one who has thought about what the world might look like. the future a lot. Some of those visions of the future are positive and utopian, while others are rather frightening and dystopian. Artists Alicia Framis, Rob Voerman and Anne de Vries depict their vision of the utopian at 38CC. What Next: Utopia? is the closing exhibition of the program What Next? Picture tomorrow. " Alicia Framis, Rob Voerman and Anne de Vries
"Rob Voerman makes his utopia visible in architectural images. They look like shrunken and distorted buildings and cities, which indirectly refer to the current atmosphere of unease and protectionism. It seems that we lock ourselves up in concrete constructions. Alicia Framis presents fictitious Departures with Departures. utopian and dystopian cities from philosophy, literature, architecture, film and science fiction as possible travel destinations In the hallucinating and spiritual techno video Critical Mass: Pure Immanence by Anne de Vries, the crowds turn into a digital mass during a dance event Will we no longer exist physically in the future? "