Utopian Talk-Show

Utopian talk-show line-up is conceived as a hybrid talk-show/game-show exploring the notion of Utopia. A line-up table is transformed by a graphic framework, a page from a book rescaled and now occupied by readers and objects, staging the table as a discursive territory.

The invited protagonists choose and read passages from science fiction to critical texts according to the rules of an MC. Read in rapid-fire format the spoken texts imagine and attend to the “architecture of utopia”. The event asks what may be considered as Utopia, within the imagination, within the everyday, within the city; and what is its architecture, its system, its experience?

The project is a participatory, discursive and performative work by artist/architect collaboration Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley, entailing a series of events hosted in cities internationally and an evolving online resource. The artists have conceived a conceptual and aesthetic framework that is introduced to each locality. The framework is then shaped to the particular concerns within the cultural context of the event location and enlists participants from the city and network of the host organisations.

Particpants: Maria Engberg as MC with Gunnar Sandin as “Cue-card operator”, poet Ida Börjel, architect Fredrik Torisson, Christiania resident and archivist Ole Lykke Andersen, video artist Lena Mattsson and media designer Eric Snodgrass.

Place: The Loading Dock at Moderna Museet Malmö

Time: 5 pm – 8 pm

Free entrance, limited number of seats. No preregistration.