A Return to the Island
A Return to the Island
A Return to the Island is a publication that gathers the contributions of 30 artists, writers, theorists, philosophers, musicians and other thinkers to return to Thomas More’s island of Utopia, from a contemporary perspective. The book revisits the ideals of modernity along with its broken promises and aims to recover a lost future among imaginary and real cartographies. Divided into four chapters, it encompasses a sea-voyage metaphor to explore the island, the sea, time and the horizon. The publication, besides functioning as a register of utopian thoughts, seeks to promote the construction of utopias through a place that is essential to imagine the future: art. (Printed Matter)
Contributors: Gustavo Abascal, Alejandra Arrieta, Bill Balaskas, Ruth Beale, Derzu Campos, Cansu Çakar, Ting-Ting Cheng, Rhiannon Firth, Carl Gent, Dimitra Gkitsa, Sigrid Holmwood, Helena Lugo, Manuel Mathieu, Richard Melkonian, Louis Moreno, Richard Noble, Mark Pilkington, Nina Power, Rodrigo Red Sandoval, Sara Rodrigues, Guillermo Roz, Legacy Russell, Rodolfo Sánchez, Himali Singh Soin, Alex Stursberg, Isaac Torres, Suzanne Treister. Adolfo Vásquez Rocca, Michailangelos Vlassis-Ziakas and Tania Ximena
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