Time passes. Time moulds us. Time heals us, supposedly. It is the one reliable truth and pulse that we refer to while trying to unify our experiences, but what happens when that truth collapses in on itself, creating an alternate consciousness where time breaks, loops, becomes malleable or suspended?
I Was In the Tide, The Tide Was In Me is an audiovisual work by artists Ghada Eissa and Nik Rawlings that explores experiences of temporal dissonance and episodic, fluid experiences of time from the perspective of internal narratives of bipolar disorder, memory, (dis)continuity and neurodiversity, where the experience of oneself no longer fits into common-time.
Steeped in symbolism, the clusters of interchanging motifs represent the different forms that illustrate the time warps experienced through each individual’s different non-linear nuances of bipolar disorder. The mania, the lows, the transitional in-betweens, medication trials and the ongoing process of healing, each have their own stand-alone narrative of time.
Installation fabric piece was made by myself using a heat fabric manipulation technique. Materials: Synthetic fabrics. Size: 3x3 meters.
Photography by Neil Jarvie.
UK premier live performance coverage by Siyao:
The installation was featured in multiple press releases in the UK like The List, Snack Mag, The Herald, The Scotsman and The Skinny.
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