Cities are not places which people dwell upon, but a screen where people to project their imagination collectively and to forester the dream-land of living. The urban surface as sociopolitical expression resulting from vibrant transforms of global conditions can only be seen form the outside as one only perceives one's gestalt from the mirror. Asian cities, contrasting to the cities in Europe and the States, conglomerate and expand in an unexpecting rate within a condensed time--skyscrapers arise in few months; communities take shape in one night; and malls, theaters, shops, supermarkets can suddenly weave into the fabrics of people's lives. Asian cities are the site unmarked.
The rapid changes of socio-economic driving forces convert urban space into boundless and scattering suburban landscape, stuffed with high population. Still the real-estate companies are boasting of a mirage which filtered by the strategy of advertising with a make-up of European touches--where the culture meets the nature and where a good life could be insured. "VIENA... EXELLENT LOCATION , SEEING YOUR LIFE IN ETERNITY, " said in one real estate advertisement.
The collaborative work (Channel_A = Hongjohn Lin/Ella Raidel) creates images out of the found real-estate advertisement and photos of the urban condition (Taipei. Shanghai): LUXUS and DREAM. The work deals with the new living condition making reality through media of the status quo.
