A Text Study of Heterotopias in the Post-Modern Weddings.

• Main Authors: Cheng-Wen Tang, 湯程雯
• Other Authors: Chen-Peng Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20017793973871934992

碩士 === 中原大學 === 室內設計研究所 === 95 === In Van Gennep's theory of the 'Rites of Passage', traditional wedding is a bizarre, excitable and sacred intermediary process in peoples' several important thresholds of life. These rituals, under the change of Taiwan's society, have partly and gradually disappeared. However, another traditional reformed style has been created as well. In post-modern society, there are many heteroglossia phenomena. Influenced and driven by post-modernism, the space of wedding presents multi- and heterocultural-atmosphere. Through Foucault's concepts of 'heterotopias' and Bakhtin's 'carnival', this study explores the heterocultural phenomena in post-modern weddings. In many real ceremonies and interactions, it is like a virtual presentation. The wedding couples are no longer formalized in the 'rites of passage'. With much expectation of marriage, in order to tell their love story in public on the wedding day, through post-modern commercialization, no matter it is a Disney castle, an exotically romantic scene or a self-played love movie; it fulfils the wedding couple's repressed desire in a post-modern virtual real-space. The 'edge effect' presented in rituals of such post-modern wedding space is like liminiud proposed by Turner which contains the characteristics of carnival. It releases a different side of a person in the mirror in a heterospace instantly. A wedding party with heteroglossia can best exposure the characteristics of carnival. Different culture can produce different spatial expression. A wedding of elite culture might reflect the 'mask' feature of carnival and a wedding of civilian culture may use 'market' language of carnival. Furthermore, this study found that the spatial change of wedding has been transferred gradually from outdoor catering to multi-simulated indoor space. Nevertheless, experienced wedding consultants expect to witness weddings in the combination of indoor and outdoor natural elements. Whether this means that a composedly virtual romantic space is just momentary, but no longer eternity?