• DEVACATION

    退化观光

  • Some time ago, I was dragged by a rough-looking friend to a Loli cake store opened by his friend, which is said to be very popular. There must be a long queue on weekends, and the mealtime is limited, not more than one hour. With his friend's hospitality, we went straight to a reserved seat. In the middle of a circle of Lolitas busy taking photos with desserts, our two uncles each finished a cake with a cute little flag. At this time, I proposed to take a photo. My friend further suggested to take a photo of American tourists, which is the kind of southern American tourists who go to Europe and need to find scenic spots to take photos. They would juxtapose himself with various cultural attractions, wearing sunglasses, having a red face and a beer belly, holding a beer in one hand, and making V signs in the other, that is a typological photography.
    前段时间被一个长相粗旷的朋友拉去他朋友开的一家萝莉蛋糕店，很小的一家店，据说很火，周末时要排很长的队，并且限定用餐时间，不能超过一小时。在他朋友的盛情招待下，我俩直接入座了一个预留座位，在一圈忙着同甜品合影的洛丽塔中间，我们两位叔叔各自吃完了一个插着可爱小旗子的蛋糕，这时我提议拍张照片，我朋友进一步建议，拍一张美国游客照，就是那种去欧洲玩，到哪都必须找景点合影的美国南方游客，将戴着墨镜、满脸红扑扑、挺着啤酒肚、一手抓着啤酒一手比耶的自己和各种文化名胜并置，的一种类型学摄影。
  • Another time I was in Shanghai, meeting up with a friend I hadn't seen in years. He sent me the location of a store and invited me to have Brunch together the next morning. The next day I arrived as scheduled and found that this is an ordinary small bakery. After each of us ordered a small cup of coffee and a piece of bread, I asked him, "Isn't it Brunch?" "Sure, this is my Brunch." My friend is very demanding about food. He has been working in the gourmet industry for years and is usually a little arrogant. However, I can tell that when he says, " this is my Brunch", he is not cynical about Brunch's status quo at all. This is true. It is his daily life.
    另一次我在上海，约一个很多年没见的朋友见面，他给我发来一家店的定位并约我隔天早上一起吃Brunch。隔天我如约而至，发现这就是一家普通的小面包店，在一人点了一小杯咖啡和一块面包后我问他，不是约Brunch吗？“对啊，这就是我的Brunch”。我这位朋友对食物颇有要求，从事美食工作有些年头，并且平常也有点小小傲娇，但我看得出此刻他说“这就是我的Brunch”完全没有对Brunch现状的愤世嫉俗，这确实就是他的日常生活。
  • On the contrary, I suddenly would like to ask myself, "When did the recognition that ordering an egg benedict, a weight loss salad, and a glass of avocado juice in Green&Safe be called Brunch"?
    反倒是我，忽然想问自己，“在Green&Safe里点一份班尼迪克蛋、一份减肥沙拉和一杯牛油果鲜榨果汁好像才叫Brunch”这种认知，是什么时候开始的？
  • On the one hand, I find that I can take pictures of out-of-place "American tourists" in more places and on the other hand, I seem to have assimilated a lot of the new urban lifestyles. Even in the same city, I might switch between the roles of "American tourists" and "European attractions", taking the city as both a daily life and the city as a landscape. But how does the transition occur between daily life and the landscape?
    一方面，我发现自己能在越来越多地方拍格格不入的“美国游客”照，另一方面，我又好像已经融入了很多新的城市生活方式。即使在同一座城市，我也可能在“美国游客”和“欧洲景点”两种角色中切换，既将城市作为一种日常生活，又把城市作为一种景观。但日常生活和景观之间，是怎么发生转换的？
  • I think one situation is the result of urbanization. Like the gentrification of neighborhoods has caused the demise of daily life in the original neighborhoods. It may mean the arrival of fresh residents and newer and larger commercial formats. It also means the local residents and their ways of living, transportation, as well as the long-term accumulation of complex community relations, neighborhood commerce, the exit of these broader cultures. However, in order to emphasize the cultural attributes of the blocks after gentrification, many places will "reserve" or build a "local landscape" (the shell). For example, the reconstruction of the Shapowei fishing village in Xia Men asked Danmin (fishermen living on boats) who had originally lived here to move out and put in new fishing boats that existed like scenery, creating a kind of fishing village landscape. However, the shops along the coast have changed from hardware stores, grain and oil stores consumed by surrounding local residents to milk tea stores, souvenir shops, internet-famous café, and stalls patronized by tourists. The real daily life is compressed into an abstract landscape, and sightseeing has replaced it as daily life here.
    我想一种情况是城市化的结果，比如士绅化的街区改造，造成原本街区日常生活的消亡，它可能意味着新居民、更新更大的商业业态的进驻，也同时意味着老居民和他们的衣食住行方式，以及长期沉淀下来的复杂的社群关系、街区商业，这些更广义的文化的退场。但很多地方为了强调士绅化后街区的文化属性，又会“保留”或新建一个“在地景观”（之壳）。比如厦门的沙坡尾渔村改造，让原本生活在此的疍民（生活在船上的渔民）离开后又放入置景般存在的新渔船，制造一种渔村场景，但沿岸的商铺，已经从五金店、粮油店、周边居民光顾的排档变成了奶茶店、伴手礼店、网红咖啡店、游客光顾的排档。真正的日常生活被压缩成一种抽象景观，而观光取而代之成为这里的日常生活。
  • On the other hand, commercial formats, block looks, and living styles are always being quietly transformed by the culture and consumption of the younger generation. The newer forms of online media have brought businesses a more sensitive sense of smell and accelerated this transformation. I still remember the first time I saw the “Dissidia Final Fantasy” virtual character Lightning appeared in a Louis Vuitton commercial in 2016, I was still wondering what was going on. Unexpectedly, the virtual world and gamification are becoming or have actually been a real way of life. This kind of metabolism of the city itself, promoted by a younger culture, is also destined to be the landscape of some citizens in their daily lives.
    另一方面，商业业态、街区形式、居住方式总在被青年一代的文化与消费悄悄改造着。更新的网络媒体形式使商业有了更灵敏的嗅觉，加速了这种改造。我还记得2016年第一次看到LV广告中出现了《最终幻想》的虚拟角色Lightning时，我还在感慨这是怎么回事，没想到今天，虚拟世界、游戏化也正在或者其实已经成为了一种现实生活方式。这种被更年轻的文化推动着的城市本身的新陈代谢，也注定了总有一部分人的日常生活成为另一部分人的景观。
  • Many years ago, one of my artist friend Tang Nannan asked many friends "What is nostalgia?" when he was doing an art project about "homesickness". My answer was "A trip to hometown". Traveling to our hometown may mean that Tony, Mary and Candy, who are shaped by more central cities, gradually become strangers in their hometown. It may also be that we, who are no longer the young generation, have estranged from the city that is constantly metabolizing.
    很多年前我的一位艺术家朋友汤南南做一个关于“乡愁”的艺术项目时问了好多朋友“乡愁是什么？”，我的回答是“去家乡旅行”。去家乡旅行，有可能是被更中心的城市塑造的Tony、Mary、Candy们逐渐成为家乡的异己，也可能是有一天不再作为青年一代的我们和在持续新陈代谢的城市产生了代际隔阂。
  • The separation between daily life and landscape today is more than the difference between central cities and third-tier and fourth-tier cities, or the cultural generation gap between people in different eras. Citizens of the same generation in the same city may also be separated by disparate jobs, life concepts, and cultural sources. When you are struggling to go through the hip-hop youth in 44KW club outfields and dive into the techno dance floor as a kind of musical belief, "clubbing" would still be misunderstood as the collective exercises that shook their head on the disco floor as decade ago, in the minds of your peers who work in state-owned enterprises or is homebody. The opportunity for us and BIEDE to jointly launch this "DEVACATION" is precisely this separation between daily life and the landscape. The first stop of Shanghai’s itinerary is nothing new to many people, but for others, it might be another interface of city life. Of course, you may also register for parents who is curious about what you are doing every day, or friends of the same age who are still deeply confused about the lives of contemporary young people.
    今天日常生活和景观的离间，已经不止是中心城市和三四线城市的差异，或者不同时代人的文化代沟，在同一座城市同一世代人里，也可能因为职业、生活观念、文化来源不同而有着隔阂。当你将费力从44外场的hiphop青年中杀出一条血路，一头钻进techno舞池作为一种音乐信念时，“蹦迪”在你的那些在国企上班或足不出户的同龄朋友那里，可能还是十几年前在迪斯科舞池里甩头的那种集体运动。我们和BIEDE共同发起这个“退化观光团”的契机正是这种日常生活和景观的离间，第一站上海的行程对很多人来说毫无新意，但对另一部分人来说，它们可能是城市生活的另一个界面。当然，你也可以为想知道你每天都在干嘛的父母，或对当代青年生活仍充满深深困惑的同龄朋友报个名。
  • TIME: 2021.10.12
    Meeting at 12:45
    MEETING ADDRESS: Front door of the Fine Table, No. 361, Xuhui District, Urumqi Road

    ROUTE:
    HEAL WE ARE art healing (approx. 45 mins)
    Anford Road Lifestyle Guide (approx. 45 mins)
    Shanghai Fashion Week ONTIMESHOW (approx. 60 mins)
    Huaihai Middle Road Youth Fashion and Business Guide (approx. 60 mins)
    Julu Road Youth nightlife Guide at FOUND 158

    REGISTRATION METHOD: Add DEVOLUTION wechat "DevolutioN-xm" (please note the purpose for "DEVACATION"). Due to the limited number of participants, please attach a brief introduction of yourself and reasons for participation.
    TOUR FEE: 88RMB/Person (including bus transportation and dinner, HEAL WE ARE art healing fee, souvenir belt bag and cap hat)
    TRAVEL AGENCY: Shanghai Weiyou International Travel Service
    REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 10th October

    NOTE: If the applicant cancels the trip due to personal reasons, you should inform DEVOLUTION before October 11. The registration should provide your real name, contact number and ID number in order to purchase accident insurance by the travel agency.
    时间：2021.10.12
    12:45 集合
    集合地址：徐汇区乌鲁木齐中路361号 FINE西洋菓子店门口集合

    行程：
    HEAL WE ARE 艺术疗愈 （约45分钟）
    安福路街区生活方式导览（约45分钟）
    上海时装周 ONTIMESHOW 参观（约60分钟）
    淮海中路街区青年时尚与商业导览（约60分钟）
    巨鹿路 FOUND 158 青年夜生活导览

    报名方式：添加退化建筑微信, 微信号："DevolutioN-xm"（注明添加理由“退化观光”）。因参团人数限制，报名可附上剪短的参团人个人简介和参加原因。
    观光费用：88元/人（包含行程中旅游大巴交通费与晚餐团餐费、HEAL WE ARE 艺术疗愈费用、纪念品腰包一个、帽子一顶）
    合作旅行社：上海唯游国际旅行社
    报名截止日期：10.10

    备注：如报名者因个人原因取消行程，需在10.11前告知退化建筑，报名者需要提供个人真实姓名、联系电话、身份证号，由旅行社统一购买意外险。
  • (TOUR GUIDE)
    Jimmy

    (PARTICIPANT)
    Ji Honghua、Xu Huifang、Li Zemin、Su Yuezhen、Liu Guan、Yao Yangbao、Zheng Ronghua、Huan Yanqin、Lu Bohua、Zhu Rongdi、Dong Ricky、Chen Qizhai、Hong Yushi、Jiang Tengyi 、Yi Aniko、FlutterFemmeFatale、Kaki Cai

    (FILM)
    Kaki Cai
    Dong Ricky、Yi Aniko、FlutterFemmeFatale also provided the material

    (EDITING)
    Kaki Cai

    (MUSIC)
    In these shoes? - Kirsty MacColl
    Willow weep for me - Dinah Washington
    Sunglasses at night - BERND
    Fried rice - Onra / G-Easy
    Sacramento - Cherry Ghost
    (All music above from the network, if there is infringement, please contact us)

    (SPECIAL THANKS)
    Heal We Are
    Ontimeshow Sponsor
    LOOKNOW Select Shop
    Shanghai Weiyou International Travel Service
    (导游)
    张永安

    (参团人员)
    季洪华、徐惠芳、李泽民、苏月珍、刘古安、姚羊宝、郑蓉花、还燕琴、陆伯华、朱荣弟、董泽林、陈启寨、洪宇石、江依腾 、益西拉姆、刘桐雨、蔡佳琦

    (拍摄)
    蔡佳琦
    董泽林、益西拉姆、刘桐雨 亦有提供素材

    (剪辑)
    蔡佳琦

    (音乐)
    In these shoes? - Kirsty MacColl
    Willow weep for me - Dinah Washington
    Sunglasses at night - BERND
    Fried rice - Onra / G-Easy
    Sacramento - Cherry Ghost
    (音乐来自网络，如有侵权，请联系我们)

    (特别感谢)
    Heal we are
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    LOOKNOW 买手店
    上海唯游国际旅行社