丑時旅店,由阿鬼(劉宇桓)主理, 阿鬼畢業於國立台北藝術大學劇場設計學系, 主修舞台設計。作品喜歡營造整體氛圍場景, 增加故事性, 風格偏黑暗童話。靈感來自半夢半醒間。曾獲得第四屆台日妖怪大賞最優秀賞得主及全國科幻造型大賽第四名。
The Midnite Hotel was leaded by “A Gui”(LIU, YUHUAN). He graduated from the Theatre Design Department of the National Taipei Art University. Majoring in stage design. Works like to create an overall atmosphere scene, increase the story, style dark fairy. Inspired by half dreams. He won the 4th winner of the 4th Taiwan & Japan Monster Award and the 4th winner of the National Sci-Fi Modeling Contest.
Artist Background
幾年之後，夢的交易變成一種利潤可觀的商機，然而價格相當昂貴，只存在富人與權貴之間。夢有許多種，不同的等級有相對應的價格，最昂貴的夢來自於兒童，成年人的思想經過社會化，變得混濁、雜亂、庸俗，導致夢的品質惡劣，夢為何重要，因為想像力在夢中能實現，不需理會現實的各種枷鎖，好的夢能帶給人靈感與創造力整理訊息甚至頓悟，是相當珍貴的資源。
丑時旅店是特殊的機構，夢的販售是最主要的業務來源，同時也經營著學校孤兒院等慈善機構，收留許多無家可歸的孩童與遭遺棄的孤兒，孩童可以通過故事交換住宿，一晚一個故事，若沒故事可講，可以用夢來抵押，每個月的月圓之日，會舉行丑時聚會，拍賣孩童的夢境，夢境會被轉存於兔子娃娃中，通常孤兒的夢價格較為便宜，好壞不一， 一般人想嘗試會挑選此種夢作為體驗，但利潤不高，真正的收益其實是來自於VIP貴賓，包括富人與政商名流。
丑時旅店有個通往地下的秘密入口，鐵門上寫著機房重地，門外有員工駐守，一般人員無法進入，在門後有13個房間，住著特殊的房客，最頂級的夢就是由這13名孩童生產。沒有人知道這13位房客的存在，因為他們的存在過於敏感。
這13人有著不同的工作內容，因為夢不只一種，人們對於夢有不同的需求及渴望，因此在丑時旅店的秘密菜單裡有幾項特別的欄目
Ex: 濾夢，清醒夢、造夢、噩夢、美夢、夢中夢、預知夢 等。每樣的價格不等。
丑時旅店背景
A few years later, dream trading became one of the profitable business activity in upper class. Of course, the price is very expensive. The dream is selling like hotcakes in between the rich and powerful person. There are different types of dream in the Black market. The price high and low is depending on purity grading of dream. The most expressive dreams normally come from children. In contrast, the dream generated from adult always turn out very chaotic and turbid as the thought of adult was being contaminated after the socialization. It led the quality of dream down to poor condition and this is why high purity of dreams are always in high demand. In addition, the dream is all about imagination. All imagination can be achieved inside the dream. The dream buyer can experience the dream without care about the shackles in reality. Also, a good quality of dream can bring people some inspiration and creativity to manage all kind of messages or even epiphany. This is why the dream trading business became popular and it kind of precious resources in the market.
夢境交易帶著強烈的副作用，以濾夢為例，濾夢者與顧客會經由特殊儀器連接，在過程中顧客混濁帶著負面能量的夢，會經過濾夢者的轉換，以較柔和的形式重新導回，達到濾夢的效果，此服務能讓人擺脫長期反覆困擾的夢魘。然而濾夢者必須有良好的心靈狀態才能承受顧客汙穢的夢境。
The Midnite Hotel is a special institution. The dream trading became its largest sources of income to the hotel. It also operates charities such as orphanages, and accommodates many homeless and abandoned child. Children can exchange accommodation for one day by trading one stories. If there is no story to tell, boarder can use the dream to mortgage. Midnite Hotel will host an auction event in every full moon day of every month. Every children’s dream will public for auction during the event, dreams will be parasitized into rabbit dolls, the dream price of orphans dreams usually go cheaper than others. And also, the quality is so inconsistent. Normally, it will take by the person who just wants to experience the “dream”, but it is not profitable. The main income is actually from the VIP, including those wealthy person and political and business celebrities.
The Midnight Hotel has a secret entrance to the underground. There is a sign with “machine room” writing on the iron gate. There is always an employee stationed at the front gate. And the general staff cannot enter as well. There are 13 rooms behind the door. Every room is living with the special boarder. All the top dreams were generated by these 13 children. No one knows these 13 borders are existing because their presence is just too sensitive.
All borders have their own job content to follow as there is more than one dream to be needed. Customers have different needs and desires for dream. So there are several hidden services can be chosen on the secret menu of the hotel.
It is including filtered dream, Day dream, Dream a dream, Sweet dream, nightmare, a dream within a dream, as well as prophetic dream. And they are in different price.
Dream trading has strong side effects left behind to dreamer. In the case of filtered dreams, dreamer and the customer will be connected via the special instrument. In the process, the negative energy will occur through the customer who is with very turbid mind. All negative data will transfer to filtered dreamer first, then it will re-direct back to the customer in gentle form to achieve the effect of filtering dreams. This service can make people get rid of long-term recurring nightmares. However, the dreamer must have a good state of mind to counter and avoid the contamination from customer.
Dimension : approx. 150 (H) x 90 (W) x 80 (D)mm
Product description : CHAPTER I : NOVEM
Material : PVC
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AVAILABLE ONLINE on 19 OCT 2019
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