The exhibition will function as an experimental model for the conceptualization
and realization of a Utopian city for the 21st century -- the age
of informatics. Its format stems from a fundamental suspicion of the
supporting principles of modern society; monolithic universality,
linear progress, and vertical hierarchy. A clue to this transformation
from modernity to the new age comes from the concept of various "inter-ness".
Building on Haishi -- Mirage City is the stage on which four different
models of a performance are to be presented during the course of the
exhibition.
This is not an exhibition of a complete work, but of a process through
which a new Utopian idea can take shape. It is a workshop in which
the public participates and communicates as "the other"
through the different networks available. This method has been chosen
because it is our intention to show that city planning is possible
without a master plan. This is especially true in today's climate,
when all concrete determinations are thought to be impossible. The
modern Utopia has been dead for 30 years. In its place alternative
Utopia(s) will appear like a mirage.English Translation: Iwasaburo
Koso
April 19th to July 13th, 1997 [Finished]
Gallery A