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True Blue News

A project from Sam Bunn, Davide Bevilacqua, Sebastian Six and Dave Perlis (USA) and Robert Storey (UK), a 11 part 'Choir of the Future' and various Citizens of the World.

Utopia is not a place or a condition that can be achieved, but a method to criticize the present and present an itself and select the newsreader, which could represent and stimulate the best social progress. The series of failures and the final success in the casting show the core of utopian thinking. Utopia is not a place or a condition that can be achieved, but a method to criticize the present and present an alternative, better near the future: “Just Imagine! ”

True Blue News is a performative talk-discussion-news-broadcast-concert party thing with Utopic tones. For a strange series of coincidences, a small television station is allowed to stimulate a social change through the transmission of positive news. After an initial success, the TV station itself has to renew itself and select the newsreader, which could represent and stimulate the best social progress. The series of failures and the final success in the casting show the core of utopian thinking.

The performance took place at Salzamt, Linz, http://salzamt-linz.at/ the 5th April 2017. Here https://www.dorftv.at/embed/27092 you can see the recordings of the whole performance, friendly provided by the Linz alternative TV station dorfTV

true_blue_news.txt · Last modified: 2025/04/12 22:49 by dvditor