A coffee bar in the cultural park.

Open a coffee bar in C-LAB!

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 C-LAB. This alluring space beckons, inviting the visitors to imagine themselves hanging out at the empty bar, enjoying coffee and basking 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?

LIAO Chien-Chung, CLABBUCKS, 2021. Photo courtesy of C-LAB

consumer cultureContemporary Artspace
DATE2021.08.25
MORE

About

Cultural experimentation anticipates a disobedient attitude that facilitates cultural reversion and creative collision. When experiments become an attitude, a wide spectrum of cultural initiatives and fresh paths will unfold and extend like water, shock, sonic, light, or electric waves.

C-LAB hopes to showcase the cultures of contemporary creators, makers, sharers and participants to nurture a fresh ecology of cultural creation, which emerges as a cloud sharing platform for all contemporary readers, utilizing humanistic digital technologies while incorporating contemporary art perspectives as well as cultural observation to introduce innovation into society through culture.

CLABO, an online journal published by C-LAB, aims to create confluences of cultural creators and serve as a community platform for all partners of cultural experiment projects. With unprecedented cultural experiments, we have started bravely venturing into the future!
Editorial Team
PUBLISHED BY Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab
EDITOR LIU Yu-ChingMANAGING EDITOR TUNG Yung-WeiEXECUTIVE EDITOR CHUANG Chia-Chuan

Copyright

The copyrights of all contents published on this website, including but not limited to texts, pictures, writings, files, information as well as the framework, visual design, videos, audios, software and program of the website, unless otherwise specified, are the properties of the Taiwan Living Arts Foundation or authorized by the copyright owners, and are protected by the Copyright Laws of Taiwan, the Republic of China.

Without a prior written consent or authorization, the contents of this website should not be partially or wholly reproduced, transferred, distributed, quoted, altered, broadcasted, or published by anyone. Should you wish to quote or transfer any contents of the website, unless clearly permitted by the law, you are required to obtain a prior written consent of the website or other copyright owners.