A diary of the conflicting wills which is shown as
always acting against the best judgment.
The akrasia is reflected in repeated failure of will that although the artist cares about her health as she kept taking the vitamin Well-women one capsule per day, she can’t quit smoking every day knowing beyond a shallow doubt that it harms her lungs.
Collected 180 cigarette butts she smoked and tucked them into the space of 12 well-women blister packs, a brand-new blister pack of pills is made. The illness of will presented in the form of pills constitutes a humor of the blatant and unresolvable failure.
The akrasia is reflected in repeated failure of will that although the artist cares about her health as she kept taking the vitamin Well-women one capsule per day, she can’t quit smoking every day knowing beyond a shallow doubt that it harms her lungs.
Collected 180 cigarette butts she smoked and tucked them into the space of 12 well-women blister packs, a brand-new blister pack of pills is made. The illness of will presented in the form of pills constitutes a humor of the blatant and unresolvable failure.
To manifest the conflict between reason and desire, as well as the
confrontation of two wills, I projected my daily akrasia into practice.
Personally, I care about my health a lot so I kept taking the vitamin Well-
women one capsule per day regardless of the sick feeling after taken. But on
the other hand, I can’t quit smoking every day knowing beyond a shallow
doubt that it does harm to my poor lungs. Collected 180 cigarette butts I
smoked, I tucked them into the empty space of 12 well-women blister packs to
form a brand-new blister pack in the installation Pills (2024) which serves as
a diary and life portrait of my conflicting will as always acting against my best
judgment.
In this documentary conceptual art attempt, I have the opportunity to compare 180 times between the two ends of the swing. Swallowing pills and smoking are both a form of inclusion. Swallowing a pill only takes five seconds while smoking a cigarette takes three minutes. Has the latter won in terms of the length of time I’m willing to pay?
Empty medicine blister pack as the metaphor of rational judgment envelops cigarette butts as capricious decisions made by will: the tension is not only a physical reflection but also a depiction of the will itself. Every attempt of struggling against incontinence is intending to embed the will under the constraints of reason, and all cigarette butts are proof of the attempt's failure. If the cigarette butts wrapped in empty blister packs are failed attempts of incontinence, then do the 12 blister packs wrapped in the larger blister pack module point to the possibility of infinite repetition - akrasia is an impulse that cannot be restricted? Now these two elements are formed in an imaginative way in this installation, but only appear to be the demonstration of the incontinence of will. Thus, a sense of humor is formed which is composed of calm and public ridicule towards the akrasia of will, and 180 times of daily failures in the last six months.
In this documentary conceptual art attempt, I have the opportunity to compare 180 times between the two ends of the swing. Swallowing pills and smoking are both a form of inclusion. Swallowing a pill only takes five seconds while smoking a cigarette takes three minutes. Has the latter won in terms of the length of time I’m willing to pay?
Empty medicine blister pack as the metaphor of rational judgment envelops cigarette butts as capricious decisions made by will: the tension is not only a physical reflection but also a depiction of the will itself. Every attempt of struggling against incontinence is intending to embed the will under the constraints of reason, and all cigarette butts are proof of the attempt's failure. If the cigarette butts wrapped in empty blister packs are failed attempts of incontinence, then do the 12 blister packs wrapped in the larger blister pack module point to the possibility of infinite repetition - akrasia is an impulse that cannot be restricted? Now these two elements are formed in an imaginative way in this installation, but only appear to be the demonstration of the incontinence of will. Thus, a sense of humor is formed which is composed of calm and public ridicule towards the akrasia of will, and 180 times of daily failures in the last six months.