In Finnish, there is an expression Valituskuoro. It means "Complaints Choir" and it is used to describe situations where a lot of people are complaining simultaneously. Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen got the idea to organize literal complaint choirs and put together four initial choirs. The idea spread around the world and there have been choirs in cities such as Birmingham, St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Philadelphia, Hong Kong, and Jerusalem.
The Making of Utopia
From the film set: when the anarchist's car break down, the community helps to push it up the hill.
Four short, fictional films about four real utopian communities in Australia. It was written and acted by community members. The main questions the artists posed to the communities related to the ongoing conflict between utopian vision and communal reality.
Summit of Micronations
Representatives from the Legation of the Principality of Sealand, an independent state outside of Great Britain. It was established in 1967 out of a loophole in international law and has a population in the low hundreds.
"The term »micronation« has been applied to almost anything from invented kingdoms, model states, cybertopias, libertarian oases to real existing miniature states. Each micronation attempts in its own way to create a zone of autonomy. Micronations who attended the summit have proclaimed constitutions, established their own laws, and monetary systems, and possess state symbols such as passports and flags. Some of them have reached a high degree of sovereignty over a very small territory." Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen organized a three day summit to give the public information about the micronations, their histories, state of affairs and policies. Some micronations even accepted applications for citizenship.
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