Shopping is a therapy. Shopping Mall [enclosed shopping streets] which shelters us from unfavourable weather conditions (like rain, wind, sun, pollutes from traffic, etc.) and its all-in-one feature - representing convenience and efficiency - is something we desire in a city of the 21st century. On the other hand, combining with the help of Facebook, Twitter, and other kinds of social networking apps [which allow us to constantly exposing ourselves both actively and passively], shopping thus represents a kind of life-style - a new mode of living.
My previous projects, looking at the pleasure experience in shopping and how the performance of spaces are perceived differently [with infinite variety of events - regardless of orientation and scale - happen and interlock with each other at the same time], are the stepping stones to explore the possibility of this new mode of life. The reasons which catalyses the liberation of this are our change of perception in the speed of time and the essential desire to look for something better.
Inspired by the Situationist's idea and my technique of using collage to represent spaces, perhaps allow me to make an analytical guide on how do we shop nowadays and develop that into something visionary for the coming 5-10 years' time.
Related Words: Shopping, Living, Desire, Display, Objectification, Subjectivity, Media, Publicity, Public/Social Space, Control, Surveillance, Phenomenology, Cultural Regionalism, Mobius Strip, John Locke, Perspectivism, Fetishism
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