Can’t you manage anymore? Are you sick of running everywhere? Tired of always being available? Up to here with notifications, updates and endless family WhatsApp groups? Don’t worry, it’s burnout syndrome, a contemporary disease and the alienation of the 21st century. But burnout is more than tiredness; it describes deep fatigue, mixed with anger and boredom, and it happens when we lose our sense of personal fulfilment and feel separated from ourselves, as if our lives were being stolen away.

To measure your level of burnout, the Gheada collective developed the Pausometer, a device that measured your need to stop based on the decibels with which you were able to shout the Getxophoto 2023 motto, Pause! If you reached the required volume, the device gave you a souvenir photo that immortalised this moment of relief and liberation.

Co-founded by Raquel Durán and Rut Briones, Gheada is a multidisciplinary artistic studio based in Bilbao specialized in immersive, interactive and performative experiences. They develop cultural projects in which technology and craftsmanship converge in the service of an immersive narrative, offering multi-layered sensory experiences. They collaborate with numerous stage companies designing their projections, and have also carried out projects for institutions such as Centro Botín, Fundación Bilbao 700, Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao City Hall, among others. Their work has been exhibited at the Festival Proyector in Matadero Madrid, the Umbra Festival or the Auditorium of Galicia and have received grants from the BilbaoArte Foundation, the Kunsthaus of Bregenz (Austria), the Basque Government or the Montehermoso Cultural Center.

Gheada (Galicia / Bilbao)
Pausometer

2023 Edition
Project created especially for Getxophoto
Indoor installation
Venue: Market of Algorta
Collaborator: Traders of the Algorta Market