Un-imagining Utopia

Reframing the ‘60s

6 Mar 2008
  • 19:00
  • Casco
  • Nieuwekade 213-215, Utrecht

Joining up the dots between Purple Haze and Prozac, the love-in and the rave, the commune and the gating of communities, this performative mixed media presentation explores the legacy of the US 60s counterculture and its implications for the future of American Dreaming.

With:

Dick Hebdige who will be holding the performative presentation has taught in art schools in the UK and USA since the 70s and has published extensively on contemporary culture, art and music. In 1992 he moved to the States where he served as Dean of the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts before moving in 2001 to the University of California, Santa Barbara where he teaches in the Art, Film and Media Studies Departments.