Utopian Chemistry
Elements of a feasible utopia
Utopian Chemistry
Welcome to Utopian Chemistry, home to the elements of the good life.
We are a pop-up shop and art installation featuring The Periodic Table of A Feasible Utopia - all 118 elements of an imagined but plausible future.
Come and visit us at The Galleries Shopping Centre on Union Street in central Bristol.
Opening day is Saturday 11th November 2023 and we will be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays until the 9th December. We are open 11.00 am to 6.00pm.
The Periodic Table of a Feasible Utopia.
When I was maybe eight years old, I first saw the periodic table in a science encyclopaedia. I was enchanted - all those fabulous coloured rectangles and mysterious symbols.
The I read Primo Levi, the Italian chemist and novelist. His book of short stories The Periodic Table - tales of life and death under in Mussolini’s fascist Italy of the 1930s - taught me that the periodic table can stand for all kinds of elements and emotions.
I used to read manifestos - political and artistic - and have even written one or two myself, but no one really reads manifestos anymore. So what does a manifesto look like in the age of instagram?
The Periodic Table of a Feasible Utopia is my answer to that question - the elements of the world I would like to live in with you. But utopias are shared or they are nothing. So the question really is what do you think are the elements of the good life?
