物化消费 · Materializing Consumption
与Mspecter买手店合作项目 Cooperation project with Mspecter Fashion Studio
这个活动名为《物化消费》,是我在2015与Mspecter买手店合作的项目,我负责主题观念和表演的叙事,以及舞台中心的装置设计。
 
主题“物化消费”的灵感是来源于法国哲学家鲍德里亚的《消费社会》。这本书引发了我们对当下是什么驱使人们持续消费时尚的一种思考,主题中的物化,指的是对人们持续消费时尚这个行为的物化。这是一个无限的强制性消费的意义的链环,我们都被一种看不见的锁链捆绑,并进行强制性消费。这里所说的锁链是隐形的,是指我们每个消费品背后的一种全套的意义,带领我们,牵扯我们往前消费。

This work was called Materializing Consumption, which is a project I cooperated with the Mspecter Fashion Studio in 2015. I was responsible for the main concept and the narration of performance, as well as the installation in the stage center.

 

The inspiration of this work, Materializing Consumption, derives from a book named  The Consumer Society  written by Jean Baudrillard. This book has inspired me to think about the driving force behind people’s continuous consumption of fashion. The word Materializing refers to the materialized action of people’s continuous consumption of fashion. This is an infinite chain of the significance of compelling consumption. We are bound by an invisible chain and are compelled to consume. The chain we mention here is invisible. It refers to the full significance of every single consumer item. It leads and pushes us to consume consistently.

“物化消费”装置部分2
“物化消费”装置部分1

"物化消费"的装置部分 The installation part of "materializing Consumption"

乐雅无垠酒店·喂空间 Leya infinity Hotel · feed space

厦门 Xiame,2015

“物化消费"之金晶采访部分,以及开幕表演记录片 
The interview of Jin Jing and the documentary of the opening performance
 
 

开幕式上的行为表演现场 

The performance at the exhibition opening

“物化消费”行为表演现场
Materializing Consumption
Materializing Consumption
Materializing Consumption
Materializing Consumption
作品的第一部分,是舞台中间一个类似于纪念碑一样的装置作品。我采用的材料是比较粗糙锐利的金属溶质和有韧性的织物。我将这两者搭建起来,并且相互拉扯,人与时尚消费之间的挣扎、纠缠、吸引、共存和这个雕塑有着某种微妙的共通性。
The first part of this work is an installation in the middle of the stage, which looks like a monument. The material I used is some rough and sharp metal solute and resilient fabric. I built the two substances together and make them pull each other. The struggle, the entanglement, the attraction and the co-existence between people and fashion are in common with this sculpture in a subtle way.
接下去是作品的第二部分,就是模特。我将模特打造成雕塑感,并且不是把它放置于舞台中间,而是放置在观众之间。我是想打破观看方式,就是打破原有的观众对模特的一种有距离的观看状态,而变成零距离的,一种有压迫感的观看状态。
Next comes to the second part--- the models. I molded the models into a kind of sculpture. They were not put into the middle of the stage, but in the middle of the audience. I was intended to break the traditional way of viewing. That is changing the traditional pattern of watching the models in a distance into a way of face to face watching, a stressful appreciation.
作品的第三部分,也是最重要的一部分是一个行为表演。当时是等全部的观众差不多都入场了以后,整个空间已经布满了人群的时候,一种充满神秘感的声音开始响起。空间中所有的模特开始进行一种简单的、重复性动作,带着这种动作开始向舞台中间慢慢地聚集。这个动作有类似于像挣扎、一种被牵引和朝拜的元素在里面。这个表演过程是探讨人们持续性进行消费时尚的一种状态。最终模特会聚集到舞台的中间,然后重复着以上的动作,并且围着这个如同纪念碑一样的装置。
The third part, which is also the most important part, is a performance. At that time when almost all the audience entered the arena and the whole space was full of people, a sound full of mystery was heard. All the models started to do a simple and repetitive action. And started to gather toward the stage slowly. This action was similar to a kind of struggle, with a pulling force and a pilgrimage element in it. In fact, the process of this performance is an exploration of the state of people’s continuous consumption of fashion. At last, all the models gathered together to the middle of the stage. And repeated the previous action and encircled the monument-like installation.
这个过程中非常有意思的一点是,在人群中持续站立了半个小时如同雕塑一般的模特,突然在观众的身边开始进行表演的时候,零距离的震撼感让现场观众感到非常的惊讶。我看到他们都纷纷地拿出手机拍摄,并且张望交谈想知道接下去会发生什么,其实这是整个作品最重要的内容之一,是我们想探讨和记录观众的反应,也是我将模特零距离放在观众之间的一个初衷。
The interesting point here is that when the sculpture-like models who had stood for half an hour. Suddenly started to perform beside the audience. This zero-distance shock surprised the audience. I saw them taking out their mobile phones and taking photos, looking around and discussing what will happen next. In fact, this is the most important part of the whole work. It is the reaction of the audience that we want to explore and record.