We are Utopia
A Project in collaboration with Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
Category: scope
The challenge was to create a magazine within 48h. The issue was called „Aspiration“. My desire for a „new Utopia“ lead me to this implementation. To fulfill my personal utopia I worked oldschool analog using 4×5 Fuji Instant Film, washed out with sodium hyperchlorite. Afterwards the negative has been scanned. The look is the result of the chemical process with no further retouching.
Idea & Concept: Oliver Schwarzwald
Machines: Kirsten Schmidt
Plato discovered Atlantis, Campanella conceived the sun city; after the great wars intellectuals dreamt of socialism while Bagwhan longed for spiritual sex. When we imagine the distant future today, we either see Gotham City or cyberpunk. But what´s happened to the classical idea of Utopia, the fantasy of an ideal Place?
Where are the bold visions of a better new world? How about we start small and imagine the energy in plants could be used to power useful machines - with which we can see, hear and taste better. Just one possible vision of tomorrow we yearn for. (Original German text: Sabine Cole, English translation: Oliver Köhler)
