Sentences with phrase «failed utopian vision»
2015 Moving Image, a book in Whitechapel Gallery's «Documents of Contemporary Art» series, reprints an excerpt from «Cable TV's Failed Utopian Vision: An Interview with Dara Birnbaum» by Dara Birnbaum and Nicolás Guagnini from Cabinet no. 9
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If one adopts a nihilistic perspective from the very start, this will avert the kind of disappointment that utopians experience when their visions inevitably fail to become fully actual in history.
The exhibit, which investigates experiments in utopian living through the colony, is abstractly based on Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, the community's under - recognized matriarch and her relationship to nature, spirituality and the failed vision she had for herself and her family.