Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making : Intellect Books : 9781789386523 : 1789386527 : 31 Mar 2023 : An exploration of diverse art practices that attempt to offer new ways of understanding and being in the world. Contemporary art has a complex relationship with crisis. On the one hand, art can draw us toward apocalypse: it charts unfolding chaos, reflects and amplifies the effects of crisis, and shows us the dystopian in both our daily life and in our imagined futures. On the other hand, art's complexity helps us fathom the uncertainty of the world, question and challenge the order of things, and allows us to imagine new ways of living and being?to make new worlds. This collection of written and visual essays includes artistic responses to various crises?including the climate emergency, global and local inequalities, and the COVID-19 pandemic?and suggests new forms of collectivity and collaboration within artistic practice. It surveys a wide variety of practices, oriented from