Until October 29, Terence Gower participates with his video "New Utopias" (2010) in "Atmosphérique". Held at arc-en-rêve (Bordeaux), and halfway between an exhibition and a festival, this event explores the many ways in which video can contribute to the transmission of architecture and space.

“For the past 5 years I’ve been researching the great public works of postwar USA: public schools, housing, cultural complexes, and embassies.

It is this period I examine in New Utopias. I study the popular culture of the late 1960s and 1970s to assemble some of the more far-flung examples of utopian thinking from the decade preceding Reagan’s election. And I feature a narrator reminiscent of the 1950s Walt Disney figure. He presents my research in an environment that upholds the production standards of the cold war technological propaganda pioneered by Disney. But where the 1950s original celebrated rockets and nuclear technology, my updated version of the Disney documentary promotes aesthetic frivolity, sexual perversion and UFO abduction fantasies.”

- Terence Gower