Collaboration with Viola Renate.

On the opening of the Utopian Grids exhibition (Trouw Exhibition Hall. September, 26 2009), while the guests and the contributors were sipping their champagne, two anonymous street sellers came in. While the guests were curiously staring at the two street sellers, they were placing their goods on a cloth in the middle of the exhibition space. Their unexpected presence in the exhibition space caused confusion, and even some tension. How is it possible that so suddenly these two unknown men (uninvited and unannounced) are participating in the Utopian Grids exhibition?
Visitors and participants where even more surprised when it became clear that those two traders where selling T-shirts manifesting Utopian Chaos. The mysterious street sellers claimed that their T-shirts were coming from the future, as a souvenir from a world to come.

Text apperaing on the label:

Europolis. This product is transmitted from the year 2100, by the state of Europolis, as a sneak preview of the future.In 2100, after one more century of globally expanding urbanism and the increase of European integration and identification, the European cities are blended together into Europolis.This souvenir, from a world to come, is a proof that Europe has a prosperous future, where strict grid systems no more exist. That city, which Europe will turn into, will be a non-order high quality mad mix, a holy mess of informality and diversity.
In 2009, the vision for a utopian chaos will turn into reality in a century, and the dystopian scenarios will fail.This shirt is specially made to inform the 21st Century Europeans, non-Europeans, pro-Europeans, anti-Europeans, Eurosceptics, Europhiles, Eurooptimists, and Europessimists about their urban future. Rave and excite the presence of chaos in a Eurotopian scenario.

Posters: Silkscreened by Kees Maas
Size: a1 Edition:25 Color: 3 colors
T-shirts: White and grey. Size: M, L, XL

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