How Is A Utopia in Today Built?
Installation, 2019
Combined with Still Image Video & Sound
Fiberglass, Acrylic, 3 Mobile-Phones, Projector
120cm x 120cm x 60cm
The sharing economy is increasingly taking part in people’s social life, which becomes an inspiration for this work. People share information through LED advertisings and cell phone power through shared charging banks, which generate a sense of Utopia community linked by human creations.
This work tells how a Utopia in today to be built through the idea of sharing. Since Utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens, there seems to be another beautiful Utopia in this work. People included are sharing things with others, both tangible and intangible.
Its building order is according to Genesis which shares the same order with things coming into being in the universe found by scientist Gerald Lawrence Schroeder. This part of Genesis is reconstructed in this work, this Utopia comes up with light, atmosphere, plants, festivals, technology, cartoon animal images, peers and electricity. The perfect Utopia world is being built ritually as real.
The island included in the work is a symbol I borrow from the novel book “Utopia”, written by Sir Thomas More, which described a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean. The spotlight, mirrors, and blue background images are used to present the extreme idea of share and equality.
People who live in the Utopia are get connected by both sharing and being shared. A Utopia in today has been built in this work.