A utopia se ocupa. considerações sobre a obra de jonas staal

Abstract

Dutch artist Jonas Staal explores the Double character of utopia in his works, which are often political acts. On the one hand he works the issues related to the “totalitarian” aspect of perfect society, as we can see in a fictional traditions ince Plato and Thomas Morus. On the other hand he his works are about the possibility of occupy ingt his utopian space, but as the artistic practice understood as experience eminently opposed to any institutional and societal control. In this paper I claim that the idea of utopia a revery close of the dystopia none, and the Staal’s work of art are a kind of permanent dystopian way to occupy the non-place of utopia.