Andrew Harrison
There exists no buildable plan for the space of liberation. No future city or modernist techno-dwelling will deliver us the utopian goods. Utopia proper is, has always been, doomed from its conception--once built it becomes static, demystified, and mundane. But utopia still persists: existing and sustained through its absence. Utopia, in the here and now, is method, practice, action; an experimental engagement with the world calling out from elsewhere and compelling us to move. My practice operates through the co-production of ideas, forms, and object present in urban planning, architecture, design, and film and re-awakens them through experimentation, modulation, and inquiry. Through the systematic transformation of idealized forms into maps, models, photographs, and short films, my work simultaneously engages the viewer with the history of utopian production and the unfolding of the utopian now.