Christina Lodder, 'Utopia: The Never-ending Story' | Online Conference “Utopia in Art and Politics”

Online International Conference: “Utopia in Art and Politics”
Friday, March 19, 2021
Organised by MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection
In collaboration with the University of Glasgow

Utopia: A word that in the course of the last two centuries has expanded its meaning and use from literature and the arts where it initially came from, to politics and generally to the way of thinking and gave derivative, opposite and complementary meanings: dystopia, eutopia, heterotopia i.a. Of all different social manifestations that could be characterized as "utopian", two are the most common: the use of the term in relation to artistic production and to political theory. Utopia offered to Politics the plan for universal social redemption under collective effort. Respectively, Art described and depicted Utopia, the struggles for utopian conquests but also the disappointments of dystopian failures and defeats. Are social desires related to the utopian political design and the utopian artistic vision? How individual or collective is Utopia?

The conference presented and discussed Utopia in Art and Politics through interdisciplinary approaches.

In this video:
Christina Lodder, Emerita Professor, scholar of Russian art of the early twentieth century, President of the Malevich Society
"Utopia: The Never-ending Story"