Eastern Aphasia Caress (EAC)

Transdisciplinary artist Kaela Mei-Chee Chambers’s work examines a feverish desire to define and quantify healing; a frantic need for (and failing of) structure in times of crisis, and the language constructed around that need. At the core of her inquiry is a critique of a drive toward wholeness, wellness, and bureaucracy.

Chambers has a preoccupation with worksheets and assessments: with the impulse to standardize, universalize, fix, and quantify experiences. She is interested in these attempts at order; in the inevitable and necessary failure of such attempts. She is interested in the gesture of self-help, its implications as a private (and privatized) answer to American healthcare. In her practice, Chambers co-opts clinical and instructional formats to build frameworks for coping.