Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom A research project by Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler in collaboration with a group of international artist-curators. We understand “Utopia” as an always incomplete alternative, the invocation within the given world of something incompatible with, and hostile to, given conditions. It is a negation of the given and a recognition of “something missing,” but also a necessarily imperfect assertion of that which is not—yet. The work follows utopian projections that serve the purposes of secession from and resistance to our particular present. The “negative” or “critical” version of the utopian “impulse” is not just a matter of satire, or listing what’s wrong with the world as though listing it could change it. Utopia, rather, is the assertion of the unrealized in and against the real. https://www.secession.at/en/exhibition/utopian-pulse-2/