Times Square Midnight Art Shows

[Magical Realist]

I'd love to see one of these. It's video art!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBKU1IgLr2M

[C C]

Hi, my name is Marco Brambilla, and I'm here presenting Midnight Moment. This piece is called "Approximations of Utopia" and this will be the first time it's seen in the world on the 95 screens in Time Square. Using expos from six distinct geographic locations and bringing them here all together for the first time. It's a moment that envisions a utopian world for humanity.

Calling it "Approximations" is at least realistically humble to a degree. Utopia is quite compatible with art -- made for art. Art is the only external context where one will ever experience the social fantasy of utopia.

Our hopeless secular aspiring for it arguably produces more dangerous side effects (dystopia) than the church version, since the former wants to establish paradise in the here and now rather than defer it to an afterlife.

But OTOH, religion's selective membership or restricted access for residence in "heaven" (got to pass the test slash qualify) has encouraged all sorts of strict or crazy behavior, emotions, grudges, ignorance, and calamity itself on Earth. So probably not much difference in the end.

A group literally believing that it can instantiate an idealization materially is French Lick either way (even "cloud-land" still entertains spirits as bodies moving/changing/interacting in space and time).