UTOPICS

Utopics has also appeared at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, as part of Foretold Now , a series of events, screenings, and debates addressing the phenomenon of prognostication.

It was first performed at 58th Venice Biennale, in ECC’s collateral exhibition at Palazzo Mora in May 2019 —

and in 2021 at St. Matthäus-Kirche, Kulturforum, Berlin, per Utopie Kulturforum’s fraught consideration of 19th and 20th century utopian visions.

Each iteration places material traces alongside physical attempts at tracing – while enabling missed traces, and the remainders they engender, to spill into subsequent architectures.

What does apocalypse sound like? How do the intensities of feeling that accompany such speculations converse with other drafts on timelessness such as utopia and cosmogony?

Utopics incorporates text projections that mind these questions, while building up layers of sonic decay as the reverberations of its previous architectural interiors accumulate with each iteration.

These texts emerge from an ambivalent consideration of progressive, Hegelian, and linear views of history.

In a psychoanalytic sense, they explore the preconscious topos of the human psyche.

Each iteration of the work contemporaneously indexes and mediates its placement.

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2024 iterations of the project occurred at TV Control Center (KET), Athens; Palazzo Michiel, Venice; Longhouse Art Space, Bali; and KGRn, Tokyo.

Utopics is a recursive series of spatial interventions that employ 3D scans; video projections; text; organic materials; satellite photographs; and techniques of audio recording and playback to contemporaneously index and mediate its placement.

Each iteration places material traces alongside physical attempts at tracing – while enabling missed traces, and the remainders they engender, to spill into subsequent architectures.

What does apocalypse sound like? How do the intensities of feeling that accompany such speculations converse with other drafts on timelessness such as utopia and cosmogony?

Utopics incorporates text projections that mind these questions, while building up layers of sonic decay as the reverberations of its previous architectural interiors accumulate with each iteration.

These texts emerge from an ambivalent consideration of progressive, Hegelian, and linear views of history.

In a psychoanalytic sense, they explore the preconscious topos of the human psyche.