购物乌托邦 Shopping Utopia

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胡昉，1970年生于浙江。生活在广州和北京。他所参与的当代艺术空间实践反映在维他命空间和观心亭 (www.vitamincreativespace.com)的一系列项目之中。与之平行的是他的小说写作，他出版有《镜花园》、《新人间词话》、《感觉的训练：理论与实践》等。

作者简介

“购物乌托邦”是一个虚拟建筑，一个六角形的购物中心。地面上下共10层，按垂直方向将城市生活的各种机能高度浓缩：专卖店、美容院、房产展销处、超级市场、儿童乐园、游戏城、鬼屋、美食城……然而它也绝非一尘不染，和这个城市一样，在其鲜亮光洁的高处之外还有其黑黑的私处：潮湿的地下室，阴暗的走道，幽闭的洗手间……光芒四射的“购物乌托邦®”是城市的灯塔，中央漩涡般的中庭是生活五光十色的万花筒，而“离开它，外面便是茫茫黑夜……”

小说以“购物乌托邦®”内的店铺为地理坐标，多线性地展开了对购物中心一天日常生活的叙述。小说将在购物中心各个场所之间游移的十余组具有类型意义的角色编织组构，他们来自中国的各个角落，带着不同的社会阶层背景，以不同的动机和心情，在同一天交汇于同一场所，并去向各自扑朔迷离的未来。他们共同构成一个多元的叙事建筑——而只有在购物中心这个集体意识的公共场所，在这个逐渐替代了城市广场而成为唯一的公共场所，这样的叙事才能形成。

在《感觉的训练》之后，“购物乌托邦”将购物空间作为“感官现实”空间的背景，来探讨在今天的现实中人们感官世界的形成。

《购物乌托邦》插图：段建宇；封面设计图：姜珺

中文版，20.5 x14 cm, 38 Pages, 大道出版社, 香港，2002,ISBN 962-85924-5-9

"Shopping Utopia" is a hypothesis constructed as a hexagonal shopping mall. It has a total of 10 storeys, and comprises elements within its vertical structure to highly enrich modern-day city living: specialty shops, beauty salons, real estate agencies, supermarkets, playgrounds, amusement-park horror houses, food centres... Yet, it is certainly not spotless, and just like this city, there are sinister secret cloisters despite the sparkling cleanliness of the high-rise building: damp cellers, dark alleys, locked washrooms... This shining "Shopping Utopia ®" is the city's lighthouse, with its dazzling central quadrangle teeming like a vibrant kaleidoscope of life.  However, "once you leave, all there is out there is the endless night..."

The novel situates itself within a shop in this "Shopping Utopia ®", and through a multitude of narratives, it describes a day in the life of this shopping complex.  It weaves together significant events occurring to 10 individuals in various spaces within the shopping mall. They come from different parts of China and possess disparate social backgrounds. Each of them have different motives and emotions. They interact with one another on this one particular day within the same place, and then are propelled separately into each of their own unknown future. Together, they form a multi-voiced structure – and it is only in the collective consciousness that is the shopping mall, in this sole remaining public space that has gradually substituted the city's public square, that such a narrative can take place.

After "Exercises in Sensation: Theory and Practice+ Sex History", "Shopping Utopia" uses the background of a shopping space as a means of "sensing reality", to investigate how we construct sensory reality in contemporary times.

Cover image and drawings: Duan Jianyu

Diagram: Jiang Jun

French Version, 17.5 x 11 cm, 132 Pages, Bleu de Chine, Paris, 2003,ISBN:2-910884-69-4

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