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| News From Nowhere: visions of utopia, promises to be one of the largest art events in London this year. A number of public sites in North East London, including The William Morris Gallery, the Changing Room Gallery, The Waltham Forest Theatre situated on an island and surrounded by a moat, Lloyd Park, and a massive building site in the centre of Walthamstow, will be the stage for exhibitions, interventions, installations, audio visual works, music performances and public art activities during September / October 2005. Based on the title of the William Morris novel News From Nowhere, and set in and around his birth-place, the project aims to re-examine the legacy of utopianism: upheld by the idealists of the 19th and early 20th century, who believed passionately in the possibilities of radical social change, with visions of a future egalitarian world, it is a distant cry from our post-modern, post-ideological times. An International line-up of artists, designers, musicians, writers, thinkers and performers are invited to present their work in the context of the various spaces. The events, works in progress and completed pieces will be documented and published on-line in the Visions of Utopia web site. The site will also provide a global forum for open contributions, reports and sightings of utopia. A newspaper, "News from Nowhere" will be published and distributed, including essays, documentation and interviews with local and global residents, as well as those of the participating artists and organizers. |
 "Mr Carnegie awaiting his first vision of utopia" steve wheeler 2005 |