Video projection, Full HD, colour, loop, stereo Wooden seat, red led light “New Madrid” is an essay about a failed utopia and a failed copy in the shape of a journey throughout the eight cities of Madrid in the United States. As I was putting together the project “Árboles” (about urban planning as a tool for colonisation and self-colonisation) alongside the Los Hijos collective, I found out about Madrid of New Mexico. Later, I would find seven other places named the same way, located in the states of Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New York and Maine. Developed in the context of a crisis, the piece had to be limited to that American country – considering that cities named like this can be found in several regions of the globe –, given that this was the last territory which made utopia possible, and that was conceived to enable new communal experiments which led to all kinds of religious and sociological experiments. During this journey, which was designed to serve as an archive, an audio-visual inventory of all these places, I learned that they were all tinged, one way or another, by fatalism, and taken down by the two economic crisis of the 20th and 21st centuries. And it was then that the idea of copy as failure surfaced. On the one hand, the difficulties with generating new spaces during urban planning: repetition, simultaneity, circularity (as Henri Lefebvre explained in “The Production of Space”), so typical of the North-American expansion. On the other hand, a more symbolic, literary, ironic and literal approach to the word Madrid, as though it were a curse.