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Utopia




                                 
          
     
  	 
  
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                        is work uses collaged letters from a variety of 20th century maga zines
                        presented in an East Asian format—the ‘concertina’ folder.



                        I wanted to ‘find’ ‘Utopia’ within the prosaic letters of these historical
                        sources coming from a time when ‘Utopia’ was a hotly-contested and
                        oen bloody issue. It can also been seen as referring to the ‘export’ of

                        Western concepts of Utopia to the East—which had dire consequences.
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