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website to architectural design... They are covering large domains from hope for the better future.
urban actions to personal imagination, from historic geopolitical critiques Physically the Utopia Station in Venice, projected by Rirkrit Tiravanija and
to political protests, etc. Designed especially for the specific site of the Liam Gillick, will bring together the work of many different artists and
Arsenale, the exhibition’s realization is to become a process of opening architects who will build small structures, models and walls.
up a unique Zone of Urgency for artistic adventures and dialogues with Around them other small objects and projects, including drawings, small
the public in the conditions of the urgent reality of social transformation. paintings and photographs, will be set up in a free arrangement. An open
call has gone out to almost 160 artists for posters, which will add another
UTOPIA STATION layer of activity to swarm in the space and also beyond it, scattering
CURATED BY MOLLY NESBIT, HANS-ULRICH OBRIST, RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA individually into the city of Venice. The Utopia Station’s artists come from
“Today the world is too dangerous for anything less than utopia,” around the world. To list every participant is not possible here. Let us
Buckminster Fuller once wrote. Because unfortunately this remains true, say simply that it is a large, and growing, group. In alphabetical order it
we propose to travel there together as a group. We can meet at Utopia would begin with A12 and end with Andrea Zittel.
Station. The Utopia Station in Venice will be nothing more or nothing less Throughout the summer, different speakers, writers, dancers, performers
than a way station, a place to stop, to look, to talk and refresh the route. and musicians will be invited to give Utopia their ideas, radical actions and
Utopia itself an idea with a long history and many fixed ideologies, has sounds. We imagine the Station filling with life. We imagine the Station
loosened up to become a catalyst first, or the no-place it always was, a defined as much by this life, i.e. by meeting, as by its things.

UTOPIA STATION
Curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija

UTOPIA STATION
Poster Project
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Credit: Roe Ethridge

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