Contactless World
A retracing of 2020 through personal anecdotes and hand-drawn QR codes – dispatches from the epicentre of the pandemic in the U.S.
El Agua: A Short Animated Film
In Oaxaca, Mexico Indigenous communities and workers in the informal economy struggle to survive the economic shutdown and find alternative means to support their families.
Medicina Cultural, Medicina Esencial
An exploration of locally sourced, plant-based, health care among Dominican women living in Puerto Rico.
Performing Ceremony Amidst the “Yellow Peril”
Three ceremonies, three themes, past/present/futurity – an artist explores human interaction and cultural traditions in the context of anti-Asian sentiments exacerbated by the global pandemic.
Second-Hand Normalities
A visual document of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain told through experiences of frontline health care workers.
Distance of Space
Six encounters at six social distances, told incrementally through prose and needle painting.
The Virus and Us
An animated instructional video to help children better understand the coronavirus pandemic.
Microcosm/Microcosme
Confined to a 9×10 foot bedroom in Ottawa, an artist creates reflects on the visible and invisible connectivity between the material and ephemeral.
You Can’t Hug Grandma Anymore: Bugs, Borders and Covid in Benin
A journalist offers insight on the COVID-19 response in Africa, while struggling to explain social distancing to her young daughter.
COVID-19: Spatial Clusters & the Impending Refugee Crisis
In the spring of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the planet, refugees and humanitarian aid workers raised alarms that if the virus spread to the camps it would wreak devastating consequences on one of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
I’ll die where you vacation & otras películas mentales
Amidst a global pandemic, artists in Puerto Rico take to social media, creating spaces for collective recreation and a horizontal curatorial platform, with local cinema at its core.
Love in the Time of COVID-19
Optimistic reflections on the potential of creative practice in counteracting cultural malaise at the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
