廖建忠 LIAO Chien-Chung

咖啡是生活必需品，但更多時候，是消費慾望的延伸，且是消費文化的另種象徵。廖建忠延續其「表面工程法」與「假裝學」的創作脈絡，在空總打造一間咖啡店《空巴克》，邀請觀者在這個虛實交錯的空間裡，想像自己在空盪盪的店內坐下，品嚐咖啡並且享受文化氣息的樣貌。

藝術家試圖藉此作品回應一般大眾對於文化園區的想像，以及一個文化園區真正不可或缺的要素究竟是什麼。在文化園區當中，若消費文化才是真正存在之必要，那麼是否一切都是假的，只有消費才是真的？

Coffee is a life’s necessity, yet it is more of an extension of consumer desire and an alternative symbol of consumer culture than we thought. Following his consistent creative context of “surface engineering” and “fakeology,” the artist built a coffee bar named CLABBUCKS at the C-LAB. This alluring space beckons, inviting the visitors to imagine themselves hanging out at the empty bar where they enjoy coffee and bask in the cultural ambience.

In this work, the artist not only responds to the public imagination of a cultural park, but also addresses its absolutely indispensable constituents. If consumer culture is the necessary commodity for a cultural park, does it imply that everything is fake but consumption?