utopia:dystopia exhibitions

• LocationSouth West
• Type
• Salary
• Artformcombined arts, interdisciplinary arts, photography, visual arts
• ContactSophie Erin Cooper sophieerincooper@gmail.com

Description

utopia:dystopia is inspired by the 500th anniversary of the publication of Utopia, Thomas More's reflections on the concept of an ideal society.

EXHIBITIONS
Opening: 6.30pm - 9pm Friday 27th May
Saturday 28th May - Sunday 12th June
10am - 6pm

utopia:dystopia in the world
Walcot Chapel

At Walcot Chapel the idea is floating in the air that there is currently a shared utopian project underway across a globe - to transform humankind’s troubled relationship with the natural order. Many millions believe that, if this utopian dream is not fully realised, the dystopian consequences will be unprecedented in human history.

Among the visually impressive and thought-provoking works on display in the chapel is the celebrated Swiss artist, Ester Vonplon’s, requiem to dying glaciers. The Italian duo Fonte Poe make serious play with the sounds of cicadas and the Manchester performance artist, Ruby Tingle, does the same with the movements of birds. Sophie Erin Cooper and a team of volunteers float a flower meadow above the visitors’ heads and Doug Clark blocks their way with a waterfall. 

utopia:dystopia in the mind
FaB 2, 94 Walcot Street

In a subterranean setting at FaB 2, 94 Walcot Street, just five minutes walk from the chapel, the mood is much darker, both literally and metaphorically. The recently departed writer, J.G.Ballard, once said that the true dystopia in the dystopia of the mind. This exhibition explores the unquiet mind, inviting visitors to face the dystopias we carry within us.

Lizz Brady and Lizzie Dunn create a dystopian environment that evokes the tangled world of discarded technology and alienating thoughts that few of us can escape from. Konstantinos Grigoriadis confronts us with the kind of phobias most of us have buried just below the surface. But even in this dark space all is not lost. Our qualities of kindness, intellect, passion and creativity -and, above all, collaboration- are celebrated in these exhibitions and events, just as they were in Thomas More’s original slim volume. 

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utopia:dystopia exhibitions