АГЕНТСТВО УТОПИЧЕСКИХ НОВОСТЕЙ
Новости, какими они могли бы быть!
// UTOPIAN NEWS AGENCY
News the Way It Could Be!
Mass-media project, March 2012 – on-going
2012, Nizhniy Novgorod.
photo by Alejandro Ramirez
Utopian News Agency office opens in the center of Vienna! in collaboration with Jenny Sleif, Cristoph Fischer, Tajudin Taraki and Natalya Winogradowa at Kulturkontakt
The Utopian News Agency is a series of utopian articles with collaged photos and videos being published at www.openspace.ru, colta.ru, a popular website about culture, Novaya Gazeta, La Stampa and etc. These articles-mistifications aim not only to subvert the current order of things in contemporary Russia but to propose an alternative vision of such issues as national cultural politics, education, the concept of the police, the rise of nationalism, urban planning and etc…
http://www.colta.ru/articles/art/2344
http://www.art-initiatives.org/?p=10642
http://www.colta.ru/docs/18341
http://novayagazeta-nn.ru/2012/255/novosti-kakimi-oni-mogli-by-byt-osobyi-vypusk.html
http://www.openspace.ru/art/projects/35987/details/37438/?expand=yes#expand
http://www.openspace.ru/art/projects/35987/details/35988/?expand=yes#expand
http://os.colta.ru/art/projects/35987/details/38021/?expand=yes#expand
“I said this is going to be on you when residents ask you why you didn’t protect them,” she said. “Last week, it was good weather. … There were children on the playground, and it was disturbing because you want to go out there and scream, ‘Get off of this field.'” Baptista said that over the weekend, her organization contacted residents in the housing complex and tried to get the word out about the danger because “nobody put up a sign or a flier or anything.”