MANIC

CLAIRE BRIDGE

RECALIBRATE

3 channel HD video & sound
8.30 min

Recalibrate draws on traditions of feminist performance, such as Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) by embracing repetitive gesture as a reparative, psychological and political tool. Through repetitive action and incorporating her own personal toning and vocals, the artist reveals a ritual of evidence based exercises designed to rewire, recalibrate and attune the neuroplastic brain.

Informed too by Joanna Hedva’s ‘Sick Woman Theory’, Recalibrate alludes to the damages and diseases of patriarchy that cause women in particular to experience ongoing states of chronic illness, resultant from prolonged traumas. Here, the artist highlights the emotional and psychological spaces of complex PTSD, using minimal gesture, facial expression and vocal toning. The process of creating the work itself, through collaboration with family and friends, sheds light on the reparative power of relational attunement. Recalibrate speaks to hope, resilience and the potential of healing through attunement to the self and others.

With thanks to:
Anna Mc Dermott, Jesse Boyd and Nita Okoko who also appear in Recalibrate

Preview Recalibrate, 1.20 sec