Artist Chen Yiyun designed the Sick Better project to reflect on the incapacitation narrative of disease and aging. Her artwork introduces the "utopia space" inhabited by the frail and sick elderly who can transform their illness into a powering system:
This picture shows a wheelchaired elder manages to participate in sports through "coughing". Her other work also shows how diseases can transform into materialized artifacts or facilitate mobility mechanisms.
Artist Chen Yiyun designed the Sick Better project to reflect on the incapacitation narrative of disease and aging. Her artwork introduces the "utopia space" inhabited by the frail and sick elderly who can transform their illness into a powering system:
"Each illness can, for example, become beneficial to the patient through manipulation and transformation, allowing the state of being unhealthy to create certain objects or effects".
This picture shows a wheelchaired elder manages to participate in sports through "coughing". Her other work also shows how diseases can transform into materialized artifacts or facilitate mobility mechanisms.