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words, images propositions for this world - for the present for the future visit www.westspace.org.au/utopics email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit and bring work to The Office Of Utopic Procedures WESTSPACE 15 - 19 Anthony Street Melbourne Wed - Fri 12 - 6pm Sat 11 - 5pm Office of Utopic Procedures centres around the idea of the "utopic", that is, a form of "speech" which involves thinking outside the present, envisaging the possible, thinking the critique of the present, recognising the radicalism in structures and activating it, liberating it, acting on it. The "utopic" is distinct from "utopia". It is not an abstracted or purified image of perfection. It is a way of thinking and acting which is within the present but outside its structures. As a work in progress, the Office presents various aspects of the utopic. For example, in notions of space, the rethinking of the nature of work, questions of inhabitation and the nature of living spaces and conditions, the visualisation of propositions concerning social justice and human rights, questions of the construction of notions of value, questions of technology, questions of ethics, questions of the (social) play of the imagination, question for future action. Imaginary and actual, these investigations include means of removing borders to establish freedom of movement evident in the work of the group No One Is Illegal and the controversial Triple Bottom Line inquiry in to how open public space is valued in St Kilda's Talbot Reserve. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
