New World Propaganda

To change the world, we need to give a compelling vision of what the world can be. The workshop invited artists, designers, activists, writers, and poets to work both individually and collectively to create memes, posters, billboards, actions with slogans, and images that can act as seeds for the creation of the new world.

To help us formulate our visions, participantswere asked to select subjects from William Morris’ utopian novel News from Nowhere and update them as visions for our future. To hone and realise these new visions as simple visual messages, to design structures to present them, and to, finally, manifest them as posters and billboards in the pretty gardens of Pillnitz, the active causeway of the river, or the troubled centre of Dresden. Where, what and how? We decided.

Some suggested reading material:
Inventing the Future by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek; Verso.
Xenofeminism by Helen Hester; Wiley.
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright; Verso.
Staying with the Trouble by Donna J. Haraway; Duke University Press.
An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing by Paul B. Preciado; MIT press.
Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality by Federico Campagna; Bloomsbury.


ADMISSION CRITERIA / PARTICIPANTS REQUIREMENTS

• Have experience as a visual artist, designer or activist
• Can manage the reading material
• Are handy and have tons of energy
• Are excited by this new world