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 Parental Matchmaking|白发相亲

 

 

该项目通过将相亲角与market结合,探讨了荒诞的“白发相亲”行为与人的商品化现象。白发相亲是由冗杂的传统社会原因而产生的相亲活动。每到周末,身为父母的人们就会带上子女的简历相约去公园内的指定地点“摆摊”,寻找子女们的结婚对象。这是一个荒诞且聒噪的人类交易市场,也是一个老年人的社交空间。我从老年人的日常生活入手,结合人的商品化。我将老年人逛市场的日常活动与白发相亲结合,市场空间与相亲空间结合,用荒诞的空间错位去产生行为的戏剧感。从而对白发相亲以及人的商品化现象提出反思。
 

By combing matchmaking corner and market, this project discuss the phenomenon of parental matchmaking and the commodification of human Parental matchmaking is derived from complicated social traditions. Every weekend, plenty of parents took their son's or daughter's CV to the open market, finding a potential marriage partner for their children. It's an absurd and hustling human market and a social space for the elderly.

 

Starting from the daily life of the elderly, as well as the commodification of people, I combine the daily shopping of the elderly and parental matchmaking, as well as the marketplace with matchmaking place, using spatial mismatch to produce dramatic effect of behaviors, so as to appeal for reflection of parental matchmaking and human commodification.