In contemporary neoliberal circumstances, with constant demand for exponential performativity, we are overwhelmed with pressure to deliver most desirable results. Anxiety is a recurring pattern that exists throughout society, serving as a self-sanctioning response that dreads over anticipated events, while governing our emotions and behavior.

Yedidia materializes in Anxiety Machine her most innate distress using an instrument which construction enables to ease the anxiety, and visualizes its presence. It consists of a table with a metal pipe, resembling a trumpet that holds powder on top of one end, and a hole through which a person can slide. In the performance, the artist screams into the pipe, containing  black powder, which is mobilized by her voice and blown into a dark cloud that slowly sinks down on the white surface of the table, creating an ‘anxiety painting’. The main element of the performance is this short cathartic moment. However, Yedidia pushes the boundaries of this catharsis when she keeps on screaming until she is completely out of breath. She creates an endurance piece where the sense of liberation is replaced by discomfort and worry. 
How much anxiety can a person take? Are we prepared to see something that was never meant to be seen - the real internal suffering of another person? It’s a purification process, it’s an abjection of internalized pressures resting in all of us, which she aims to critically reconsider in order to be a little bit more free.