UNITED AFRICAN UTOPIAS

United African Utopias aims at altering, turning over and transforming perspectives, venturing into peoples' dreams of a better world, a better time, a better person. Into these dreams that we often seem to forget while swimming in the current of so-called real life. United African Utopias is a reminder that all things on the planet are invented by mankind, and thus, can be changed by mankind. We can create the world we want to live in.

Over four days in 2012, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut Johannesburg, as part of the Spines Festival, The United African Utopias were superimposed over the city of Johannesburg, allowing guests a glimpse of another possible reality. Taking groups of twenty on a tour of hidden corners, bizarre performances and all modes of transportation available, The United African Utopians claimed simply that "reality is not more than an agreement between seven billion people around".

A project by João Orecchia, Mpumelelo Mcata, Hans Narva and Tanja Krone.