作为一场城市狂欢的俄罗斯构成主义建筑:一种乌托邦叙事之诞生与认可

Russian Constructivist Architecture as an Urban Carnival:The Creation and Reception of a Utopian Narrative

文章中,笔者讨论的核心问题是,在构成主义的视觉语言当中确立狂欢——作为过程、隐喻以及形式——之存在。笔者追溯了城市狂欢的叙事/图像,并认为它可以被理解为是一种象征性的构成主义范式。因此,作为一种意识形态与视觉之桥梁,城市狂欢连接了构成主义戏剧与建筑。这种叙事/图像最终形成了构成主义者的乌托邦图像。但这个乌托邦,即意味着异质事物之乌托邦、作为奇景之乌托邦以及作为"颠覆世界"之乌托邦。它几乎被默认为是一场混乱的乌托邦——在一个想要将混乱(局面)有序化的社会,它定会遭到拒绝。

In this essay my central concern is to establish the presence of carnivalas process,metaphor,and form-in the constructivist visual language.I trace the narrative/image of the urban carnival,which,I suggest,can be read as a metaphor for the constructivist paradigm and which consequently functions as an ideological and visual bridge between constructivist theater and architecture.This narrative/image ultimately informs the constructivist imaging of Utopia.But this Utopia,with its implications of Utopia as heterotopia,Utopia as spectacle,and Utopia as the 'world upside down,' is almost by default a Utopia of chaos-in a society which wants to impose order on chaos,it will be rejected.