Images of the numbers 20 and 20. The left twenty, on green, features: a 2 with drawings of a rainbow, space ship, stars and sunset in the background behind adults planting while children read and make art in a field with a futurisic city in the distance; and a 0 with multi-cultural multi gender folks holding hands in a circle; and on red, features a 2 with drawings of a slave serving a rich person bottled water and clean oxygen in a sky bunker while below prisoners toil moving an electronic spit to power the bunker with a nuclear wasteland in between; and a 0 with a tv of bigger brother covered in security cameras and guns overhead of rich people being served by slaves while below one prisoner is beaten by a guard surronded by prisoners in a pit.

20:20–Utopia/Dystopia

20:20–Utopia/Dystopia was an original piece for Long Winter 8.2, December 13, 2019 at Harbourfront Centre as part of the Festival of Cool's Arctic Night. The work featured a projection of a large-scale illustration by Jonathan Rotsztain presented through an immersive installation by Julia Mroczek.

A 2 with drawings of a rainbow, space ship, stars and sunset in the background behind adults planting while children read and make art in a field with a futurisic city in the distance. A 0 with multi-cultural multi gender folks holding hands in a circle.
A 2 with drawings of a slave serving a rich person bottled water and clean oxygen in a sky bunker while below prisoners toil moving an electronic spit to power the bunker with a nuclear wasteland in between. A 0 with a tv of bigger brother covered in security cameras and guns overhead of rich people being served by slaves while below one prisoner is beaten by a guard surronded by prisoners in a pit.

The illustration appears within the forms of the number 2020, heralding the beginning of a new decade and possibly era. The left 20 highlights images of socialist feminist environmental utopia, while the right 20 represents techno-fascist dystopia.

A photo of the 2020 illustration projected on an angle against a white brick wall. The installation featuring at left a monstera plant and at right e-waste on a split table.
Close up of the uotpia monstera side of the table. Close up of the dystopia e-waste side of the table
Close up of a hand holding a pink utopia fortune paper reading, 'What's your greatest skill? Answer this question by teaching it to others.' Close up of a hand holding an orange dystopia fortune paper reading, 'What's your greatest weakness? Find a friend who's srength it is.'
A group of six people, with there backs to the camera, interacting with the installaton.

The installation built out this duality through an interactive table setting highlighting the lusciousness of utopia and drab despair of dystopia. Mroczek wrote custom fortunes for each, advice on how to survive dystopia or thrive in utopia. Attendee participants were invited to select one or more of each meditation.

A spray painted 2020 banner hangs outside of the Harbourfront Centre, Queens Quay, Toronto, Canada. Outside of Harbourfront Centre, banner removed.

The artwork spilled out of the Harbourfront Centre and onto Queens Quay, where a banner beckoned, before it was quickly removed.

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