Utopia: Aperture 241 - Aperture

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• This winter, in the wake of a pandemic, global protest movements, and a dramatic presidential election in the United States, Aperture releases Utopia, an issue that shows that other ways of living are possible--when the collective will exists.
• In Utopia, artists, photographers, and writers envision a world without prisons, document visionary architecture, honor queer space and creativity, and dream of liberty through spiritual self-expression.
• They show us that utopia is not a far-fetched scheme, but rather a way of reshaping our future.
• In a profile, Salamishah Tillet considers Tyler Mitchell's visions of Black people resting in open green space, a democratizing landscape in which Mitchell continuously asks himself: What are the things that I can do to lessen the inherent hierarchies in the photography-shoot structure of seeing and being seen?
• Sara Knelman shows the freeing possibilities of the feminist collage works of Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, Sara Cwynar, and Alanna Fields.
• Julian Rose speaks with the filmmaker Matt Wolf about his latest documentary, Spaceship Earth (2020), which follows the people who created Biosphere 2 in 1991. And Antwaun Sargent traces Black queer artists' journeys into immersive desire.
• Utopia also includes compelling portfolios by David Benjamin Sherry, Allen Frame, and Balarama Heller, whose respective works span time and geography, from bohemian New York to a Hare Krishna retreat in India.
• The utopian imagination tends to stir when the world feels simultaneously wrecked and malleable, the writer Chris Jennings notes, in a series of reflections by writers such as Olivia Laing and Nicole R.
• Fleetwood.
• Notions of utopia shouldn't be restricted to the fantasy of a fully realized ideal society, or the outsize, often failed, sometimes disastrous schemes and social experiments of the past.