Deviation And Conspiracy: The Research Of Space Practice In 798 Heterotopias

Space is one of the fundamental dimensions of our living, so no one social action can be performed beyond it. City space is not a still container of social action, but a social production produced by targeted practice. The dynamic development of urbanization in current China brings about great changes in city space. Local authority and capital have both participated in building up the mould of city space. During the special period of transformation, the true logic of space transition often comes from the attendees'daily life, and recognition of institutional innovation is usually constructed from the bottom up.By probing into an individual case, this dissertation takes the construction of 798 Art Space as the objective study. It is a case having reversed the government's plan through the attendees'space practice intermingling with contradicts, collisions and struggle. Methodologically, this dissertation will try to integrate the space theory of Lefebvre, field theory of Bourdieu and Foucault's discourse about power, adopting the investigating methods including both literature and field work and social spatial perspective to analyze the process of space transition from such 3 aspects as material, social relationship and meaning or symbol and thus explain how the attendees exceed the established institutional framework and how the co-attendees achieve conspiracy to promote a full-tension heterotopias landscape.In this dissertation the core concept of space power has been brought forward; the economic ownership, cultural ownership and political ownership of the space have been presented. The space power comes from grasping, operating and fighting for the space capital, including political power, economic power, cultural power and symbolic power. The open and plastic institution structure is the basic premise of multi-party space practice. And due to the existence of the multi-party of space power, the dialogue and interaction between them make sense, hence resources are able to be exchanged and the development of space leads to uncertainty. Adopting space theory and social special perspective to analyze the current hot phenomenon in this dissertation has enlarged the research vision on art camp. The integration of the space theory of Lefebvre, field theory of Bourdieu and Foucault's discourse about power enhance the explanatory power of space theory. The author tries to set up a research framework of space analysis by researching from material, social and meaning aspects. The research on 798 space transition is a valuable exploring for combination of empirical study on space and time.