Lenore Malen: The New Society for Universal Harmony
Karmel, Pepe / Princenthal, Nancy
Cultural Writing. In THE NEW SOCIETY FOR UNIVERSAL HARMONY, Lenore Malen uses pseudo-documentary photos, video and audio transcriptions, "testimonials, " case histories, and arcane imagery to archive the functioning of her own reinvention of the utopian society established in Paris in 1793 by the followers of Franz Anton Mesmer known as La sociA[a¬AtA[a¬A de l'harmonie universelle. Malen's New Society comes out of her long-term installation pr...