Utopia, The Place That Doesn’t Exist (2009)
Utopia, The Place That Doesn’t Exist, 2009
Intervention in public space, Single-channel video installation
Shooting format: miniDV, Duration: 1min 59sec
Screening ratio: 16:9, Sound: stereo
Date of production: March 2009
Courtesy of the Artist ©
Filmed one year after the declaration of the independence of Kosovo, the work questions the
notions of border and utopia. While hovering in the middle of a dialogue with the space and its
strong presence. Is it enough to draw borders to create a state, or is the independence of
nations utopian?
How can borders create places that do not exist?
Being aware of this fact, the work infiltrates itself into the space, without erasing it. By sticking
itself at the signboard of Prishtina entrance. Utopia questions the topography & cartography as
well as our personal geographies while transforming a place into a passage from anywhere to
anywhere.