UTOPIA WORK STATION, 1998-2022
Mixed Media
Collection: Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
The project elements consist of a school desk with a typewriter, an ample supply of paper and, in front of the desk, a paper trash can.
The instructions are on top of the desk:
First, read the previous participant's utopia, which is still in the typewriter. Then, in order to write your own, remove it, crumple it into a ball and throw it into the waste paper can. Finally take a clean piece of paper from under the desk, insert it into the typewriter and type out your own utopia leaving it there for the next person to read and discard.
This is an ongoing project. The most recent iteration is installed at the Museum der Moderne Rupertinum in Salzburg and open to the public until November 6, 2022.
Utopia Work Station, 1998-2022 by Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz. Collecting Policy. New Works in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2022, Exhibition view, photo: Rainer Iglar, © Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Utopia Work Station, 2022. Part of the solo exhibition “Las Casas Ciegas” at Galería Isabel Hurley, Málaga, Spain
UTOPIA WORK STATION, 2019 during the solo exhibition “A Mind of Winter”, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg Exhibition view, photo: Rainer Iglar, © Museum der Moderne Salzburg
UTOPIA WORK STATION, 2019 Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg Exhibition view, photo: Rainer Iglar, © Museum der Moderne Salzburg
UTOPIA WORK STATION, 2019 Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor, MI
UTOPIA WORK STATION, 1998 P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
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