Keep Distance of A Cigarette
The distance of a cigarette between two strangers is a unique moment staged by cigarettes when borrowing fire. The project intercepts the length of a cigarette as the smallest unit of social distance, through which a novel measurement system has been developed, attempting to measure irrationality through rationality.
In a time of e-cigarette, the traditional cigarette, as a mediator of the relationship between fire and tobacco, maintains a concrete spatiality and a loose but clear temporal practice that constantly negotiates social relations. Resorting to the tension in the contradiction between the rejected object and its celebration, the multimedia installation reconstructs the social images of the marginalized cigarette, drawing out discussions about labor, social interaction in the post-capitalist era, and the non-neutral influence that objects can have on us.
The distance of a cigarette between two strangers is a unique moment staged by cigarettes when borrowing fire. The project intercepts the length of a cigarette as the smallest unit of social distance, through which a novel measurement system has been developed, attempting to measure irrationality through rationality.
In a time of e-cigarette, the traditional cigarette, as a mediator of the relationship between fire and tobacco, maintains a concrete spatiality and a loose but clear temporal practice that constantly negotiates social relations. Resorting to the tension in the contradiction between the rejected object and its celebration, the multimedia installation reconstructs the social images of the marginalized cigarette, drawing out discussions about labor, social interaction in the post-capitalist era, and the non-neutral influence that objects can have on us.
