Exactly ten years ago, on January 19, 2002, the first Utopian World Championship Gala was held at Gallery Enkehuset in Stockholm. At this event an american who posted his entry under the pesudonym T.R.O.Y. was announced as the first champion and handed a check for 1000 USD. This is a short docuentation video from the gala night.

The video is featuring

The members of SOC.Stockholm: Jon Brunberg, Annika Drougge, Pernilla Carlsson, Anna-Lena Lundmark, Johan Malmström, Tobias Sjödin and Karin Willen.

Two of the jury members: Sverker Sörlin and Bo Södersten.

The special guest: Sven Olof Wallenstein

And the first UWC champion: T.R.O.Y.

A short report from Göteborg Book Fair 2010, where the Utopian World Championship participated with the new editions of the winning essays and invited the first winner, T.R.O.Y. to speak about his views on Utopia today, almost ten years after he wrote the essay that won the U.W.C. in 2001, and his current activities.

We are proud to present a new, revised, and re-designed, edition of the two winning essays in the Utopian World Championship at Göteborg Book Fair 2010. The books are published by Raketa Press with support from The Foundation for the Culture of the Future. The first volume includes the essay ´The New Word Disorder´, by the pseudonym T.R.O.Y., and the second volume has the title ´From Youth Maturity to Global Government - The Utopian Tapestry´ - and was written by the Professor Emeritus in anthropology, Mr Cyril Belshaw. You´ll find Raketa Press in booth B07:27. Read more at http://utopianwc.com. Welcome!

 

Talk with Anthony T. Fiscella

Saturday, September 25 at 4-5pm
Göteborg Book Fair 2010, booth B07:27

Jon Brunberg, one of the initiators of the Utopian World Championship, talks to the winner of the first U.W.C. in 2001, Anthony T. Fiscella, about his essay "The New World Disorder," and his view on utopianism and politics and the role of Utopias in contemporary society. Anthony T. Fiscella is a researcher in the field of history of religion at the University of Lund and has recently written a book on anarchy and Islam.

The inflatable, colorful "elephants" of the Knot were beautifully lit up by the sun, as it was starting its descent behind Kopa Cwila, when the opening ceremony for the third Utopian World Championship started on 7:30 pm Saturday July 4, 2010.

The last days the Knot has been boiling with a workshop frenzy that amazes me. Its a level of frenzy which is only matched by the kids that fervently jump around in the white ball-filled play-landscape.

This is the first in a series of blog posts from the Utopian World Championship´s presence at the Knot in Ursynów, Warsaw, Poland during the period June 22-July 4, 2010.

 

The Utopian World Championship will participate in the Knot when it stops in Ursynów, Warsaw, June 22-July 4, where Jon Brunberg will present the project in several ways.

Temple Bar Gallery
Friday 27th February, 2005
Lecture by Prof. Tom Moylan in connection with the exhibition Jon Brunberg and Brendan Earley

Scandinavian Sparks
Swedish Art and Design in China
Exhibition at 798 Space, Beijing
October 22 - 31, 2004

Saturday 5 Feb, 2005
Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki
Lecture, seminar