1w6 Project Proposal

Eassy Title:
Consumption Utopia in Contemporary Society

Aim:
My aim is to explore what will happen after consumption utopia. Talking about spirit crisis and the bailment of the spirit.Exploring different utopia worlds which from different group of people and find out something in common.

Objectives:
Find out why some people become more indulge in food, interenet,shopping, computer games etn.
Image the how Chinese personal valuation changed after 1990.

Rationale:

On Triton and Other Matters: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany
a major definition of heterotopia; is its medical meaning. It's the removal of one part or organ from the body and affixing it at another place in or on the body. That's called a heterotopia. A skin graft is a heterotopia. But so is a sex change—one of the meanings of the word.

Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias.
In the mirror, I see myself there where I am not, in an unreal, virtual space that opens up behind the surface; I am over there, there where I am not, a sort of shadow that gives my own visibility to myself, that enables me to see myself there where I am absent: such is the utopia of the mirror. But it is also a heterotopia in so far as the mirror does exist in reality, where it exerts a sort of counteraction on the position that I occupy.

The mirror functions as a heterotopia in this respect: it makes this place that I occupy at the moment when I look at myself in the glass at once absolutely real, connected with all the space that surrounds it, and absolutely unreal, since in order to be perceived it has to pass through this virtual point which is over there.

Mirror stage-Jacques Lacan'sThe
mirror stage describes the formation of the Ego via the process of identification, the Ego being the result of identifying with one's own specular image.
the Mirror Stage introduces the subject into the Imaginary order.


Outcomes:
1.Interactive Website/DVD.
2.Two Video works.


Media:
1.Using Flash and Photoshop to do a interative project.
2.Using Digital Video and software (such as Premiere,AE...) to edit movie.

Methodologies:

Two videos which can communicate together.
Like this project: Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers


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