Today our problem lies—it seems—in the fact that we do not yet have ready narratives not only for the future, but even for a concrete now, for the ultra-rapid transformations of today’s world. We lack the language, we lack the points of view, the metaphors, the myths and new fables.
Yet we do see frequent attempts to harness rusty, anachronistic narratives that cannot fit the future to imaginaries of the future, no doubt on the assumption that an old something is better than a new nothing, or trying in this way to deal with the limitations of our own horizons. In a word, we lack new ways of telling the story of the world.
Olga Tokarczuk
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everybody, free, and no one will go unsatisfied
The Institute
Institute of Meetings and Non-Meetings is a platform set up for testing and exploring the ability and inability of art to intervene in the functioning of society.
Institute of Meetings and Non- Meetings is a NGO, a studio and laboratory, a research station and testing ground, a rehearsal hall and editorial office for investigative journalism. It is an expedition to the nether regions of the lunar sphere as well as a dive into the core of quotidian existence.
At the heart of the Institute of Meetings and Non-Meetings is the creation not of physical or digital spaces, but of potential environments.
Institute of Meetings and Non-Meetings is an organism that expands by sharing and receiving, a network that grows through the exchange of knowledge and experience.
The Team
Oliver Issak on Kohtumiste & Mitte-Kohtumiste Instituudi asutaja, lavastusdramaturg ja kontseptualist.
Oliver Issak
Kerly Ritval on Kohtumiste & Mitte-Kohtumiste Instituudi asjaajaja.
Kerly Ritval
Jan Teevet on Kohtumiste & Mitte-Kohtumiste Instituudi asutaja, lavastaja ja kontseptualist.
Jan Teevet
Taavi Teevet on Kohtumiste & Mitte-Kohtumiste Instituudi kontseptualist, metallikunstnik ja sepp
Taavi Teevet
The Institute is an organism that constantly expands through sharing and receiving, a network that grows through the exchange of knowledge and experience. Thus, there are many more individuals whose actions and words shape the face of the Institute. However, it will take us a little more time to acknowledge them. Until then, we hold them in our hearts!