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Tag: artandthenovelcoronavirus

How has the past year's quarantine affected your professional life?

The Quarantine Question

AJO readers respond to the pandemic in words, sound, and images

By Dana E. Katz and Lisa Pon, Guest Editors on December 21st, 2021 in Contemporary Projects, Conversations, Texts + Documents artandpandemics, artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, Dana E. Katz, Lisa Pon
On the left, a woman in three-quarters view with crossed wrists holds a roll of toilet paper. She wears a toilet paper headdress and make-up to resemble Bernhard Strigel's Portrait of Martha Thannstetter. On the right is Strigel's actual painting, showing a woman in three-quarters view with crossed wrists holds a scroll. She wears a cloth headdress that covers her hair.

The Art of the COVID Copy

The practice of re-creating masterworks goes viral

By Dana E. Katz on August 12th, 2021 in Texts + Documents artandthenovelcoronavirus, instaart, re-creations, Renaissanceart
Thumbnail of an iframe that links out to a dynamic digital project by Jeremiah Barber. Primary image is a full-color collage of the Transamerica Building in San Francisco entwined / taken over by a termite mound, with a mouse cursor hovering over it, revealing a pop-up video of two fingers pressing a lever.

Feral Intimacies, Part II—our homes are inedible

What we can learn from termites on surviving hostile conditions

By Jeremiah Barber, Curated by Thea Quiray Tagle on July 19th, 2021 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, environmentalism, FeralIntimacies, interactiveart, JeremiahBarber, videoart
Black-and-white photograph of an older woman and a child embracing one another; both are standing outside and wearing handmade cloth face masks. The title of the zine and the name of all contributors is superimposed over the image.

Pandemic Chronicles, Volume 1

Eight artists bear witness to collective grief and resilience in this multimedia zine

By Pandemic Poetics Collective; Edited by Chip Thomas on November 19th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, BLM, chipthomas, covid, jetsonorama, zines
Color video still of performer Monique Jenkinson performing as her drag persona, Fauxnique. She wears heavy makeup, devouring an image of a hand wearing a large bracelet that appears to have been cut from a fashion magazine; magazine cutouts of other body parts are stuck to her forehead.

Diva Maw

Drag performer Fauxnique exalts in humanity, vulnerability, and decay

By Monique Jenkinson on October 29th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, drag, fauxnique, feminism, feministart, videoart
Many masked people wearing red stare at the sky, many with their phones raised to take pictures

The Masked Island

Singapore’s technocracy faces COVID-19

By John Lee on September 10th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, photoessay, photography, Singapore
Stanford Express Care nurse Anna Chico, her head and body hidden behind layers of protective gear, wears a smiling portrait affixed over her heart so that people arriving at the COVID-19 testing clinic can see an image of her face

Facing Social Practice: Mary Beth Heffernan in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson

The PPE Portrait Project builds trust between patients and health-care workers during COVID-19

By Julia Bryan-Wilson and Mary Beth Heffernan on June 30th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects, Conversations artandthenovelcoronavirus, covid, PPEPortrait, PPEPortraitProject
Collage with forty dried rose petals glued to paper with handwritten notes by the artist

Rosa enferma, Together Apart

Kaira M. Cabañas considers our vulnerable yet resilient social relations in a time of pandemic, through the lens of a work by Venezuelan artist Roberto Obregón

By Kaira M. Cabañas on May 7th, 2020 in Texts + Documents artandpandemics, artandthenovelcoronavirus, artistarchives, commoncorporeality, covid, distancelearning, globalconceptualism, JesúsFuenmayor, RobertoObregón, Rosaenferma, sharedvulnerability

Diné COVID PSA

A graphic public-service announcement for the Diné (Navajo) Nation and beyond, by artist, physician, and community organizer Chip Thomas

By Chip Thomas on April 24th, 2020 in Contemporary Projects artandthenovelcoronavirus, chipthomas, covid, diné, jetsonorama, navajo, navajohopisolidarity, painteddesertproject, printouts, psa, publichealth, ryanpinto, shibuddy

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