utopia project 2008

KARAOKE NIGHT - MUSIC TOP 100 SONGS 1968

2008-07-16T16:33:00.002+03:00

LIST of 100 SONGS 1968

2008-07-16T02:59:00.000+03:00

FROM A DAMP, SNACK-BASED LONDON

03-Fotini

2008-07-10T23:42:00.010+03:00

Trees are everywhere and even if we can’t identify them one by one, we know they do exist and grow almost forever.

-I’m going to built a bridge, then take it down and built another one.
-Why would you do such a thing? After all this effort to plan and create a concrete structure you want to demolish it?

Every structure is built up on accumulated ideas that become praxis when people decide at some point to go for it. And I believe that most of the times, because all these structures do provide people with stability and hope for the best, continue to exist and expand from generation to generation.

But then Sartre in ’68 was declaring (free translation) that “We shouldn’t prepare the happiness of the future by accepting the injustice, destitution and oppression of the present”. Was he complete insane to even question a system made out of the hard work of people who survived the 2cd world war and dreamed a better world?

-What a fool you are!

02-Fotini

2008-07-10T01:01:00.006+03:00

«It doesn’t even worth to look at any map of the world where utopia is not included» free translation from Voltaire

I don’t know if the people who participated in the revolts of ’68 in France and elsewhere had Voltaire’s thought about utopia in their mind but it seams as if the idea of impossible had taken place at that time. And if we consider that the function of a «non-existing-time-space» is the constant criticism of the present then why should present remain as it is?

A-praxia. People who’s mind has stuck in the substance of the world as it is and block their consciousness towards the impossible.

Praxis. Possible transformation of the existing based on the idea and not the action itself.

-Do you see that tree over there?
-I believe yes.

I HAVE A DREAM

2008-07-09T17:57:00.004+03:00

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. Full speech HERE

2008-07-09T12:20:00.002+03:00

POCKET DEPARTMENT IN UTOPIA

2008-07-06T17:38:00.006+03:00

01-Fotini

2008-07-05T12:24:00.017+03:00

-I’m looking for utopia. Do you know where is this place?

-Why are you looking for the place that does not exist? What do you think you can find there?
-Hope

That’s how everything started. By asking
-What do you prefer, the actual object or the reflected image of it?
I can’t really decide. If I literally believed what Sartre said « words are actions» then where experience fits in?
Sometimes I’m truly convinced that people should not speak.

During the first decade of the russian revolution everything seamed to be right. The world was leading towards a promising future concerning the human rights, art, freedom.
-Where did this all gone?

The idea of utopia is fighting the physicality of death in the same way that a revolution fights its own creation by opposing to the existence of a controlling authority. And again in the same way that every system is built in order to protect freedom, determines at the same time the meaning of it.

2008-07-03T12:24:00.001+03:00

Jerry Rubin talkin' about schools

2008-07-02T17:51:00.002+03:00

Jerry Rubin talkin' about schools part 2

2008-07-02T12:14:00.004+03:00

for Utopia & Praxis May68-May08

2008-06-29T00:02:00.006+03:00

Following the exhibition –All power to the imagination, Posters from Denis Gould’s collection (Torriano Meeting House, Kentish Town, London, May 9th – 31st, 2008)
......A conversation about Utopia, Praxis, 1968 and Freedom, the anarchist weekly newspaper, with John Rety.
Filmed at the Torriano Meeting House by the Shytstem, on Thursday 26th June 2008, for Utopia and Praxis May68 – May08.
Organised by the Athens School of Art in Rethymno, Crete, Greece –July 2008.

2008-06-28T12:26:00.001+03:00

Beauty is in the Street

2008-05-15T10:39:00.002+03:00

2008-05-15T02:18:00.002+03:00

2008-05-14T02:55:00.003+03:00

ON THE PASSAGE OF A FEW POEPLE - THROUGH A RATHER BRIEF MOMENT IN TIME: THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL 1957-1972

2008-05-13T03:18:00.009+03:00

2008-05-12T12:28:00.001+03:00