CYCLE TRACKS
WILL ABOUND IN UTOPIA
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06 August - 26 September 2004
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From the early 16th century when Thomas Moore invented his perfect world ‘Utopia’, derived from two Greek words: Eutopia (meaning 'good place') Outopia (meaning 'no place'), society has sought to conjure up the vision of an ideal society. And yet the word UTOPIA stands in common usage for the ultimate in human folly or human hope - vain dreams of perfection in a Never-Never Land or rational efforts to remake man's environment and his institutions and even his own erring nature, so as to enrich the possibilities of the common life. Utopias have often been plans of societies functioning mechanically, dead structures conceived by economists, politicians and moralists; but they have also been the living dream of poets.
Drawing its title from A Modern Utopia by HG Wells, CYCLE TRACKS WILL ABOUND IN UTOPIA explores concepts from architectural, social planning, migration, industrial relations, politics, economics, environmental activism and science fiction to prod this perpetual place of hope and folly within societal imagining.
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