Published on the occasion of the exhibition Utopian pulse, flares in the darkroom at Secession, Vienna (September 10-November 2, 2014) and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (June 29-August 16, 2015).

Foreword / Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler -- Fluchthilfe & Du? / Katarzyna Winiecka -- Driven into Conflict by Utopia / Antke Engel -- Salon Fluchthilfe; Unthinking Utopia: Borderlessness as Method / Zanny Begg -- The World is Flooding / Oreet Ashery -- Out of the Salon: Female counter-spaces, anti-colonial struggles and transversal politics. / Sophie Schasiepen -- Salon Public Happiness / Christoph Schäfer -- Please Take Generously / Wealth of Negations -- Self-Insufficiency / Matthew Hyland -- Salon Orrizonti Occupati, Occupied Horizons / Bert Theis -- Known Nowheres: Some Short Thoughts on Going Beyond / Marina Vishmidt -- MogokNasional / Nobodycorp. Internationale Unlimited -- A Preview of the Future: Workers' Control in the Context of a Global Systemic Crisis / Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler -- Salons, the Utopian Salon and Substantial Shops / Alice Creischer -- B.A.N.G. / Etcétera -- Salon DADADA / AND AND AND -- Salon-e-Girdbad, Salon of the Whirlwind / Mariam Ghani -- Taksim Square, June 2013 / Halil Altindere -- Queering utopia in the darkroom / Fernanda Nogueira -- Cuartos de Utopía, Wittgenstein and the Gypsies / Pedro G. Romero, Maquina P.H. -- El Espacio del Inmigrante / Daniela Ortiz -- Salón de Belleza / Miguel A. López -- A Mask is Always Active / Ines Doujak and John Barker -- Salon KLIMBIM / Ines Doujak and Fahim Amir.

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"This...illustrated book brings together a range of international artists and art theorists to explore and create practices ignited by a utopian impulse. Grounded in the idea that utopian imaginations are needed to organise society differently, the book explores how art practice engaged in the present can give light to necessarily incomplete alternative futures."--Back cover.