Tag: pandemic

Julian Stair: Art, Death and the Afterlife

In response to lives lost in the Covid pandemic, Stair’s new work includes monumental figural forms, small vessels with embedded human ashes and cinerary jars, alongside a series of ‘death cafes’ at the Sainsbury Centre to bring together members of…
Cosmos and Chaos: Cyfest-13

This exhibition brings together documentary and artistic material exploring the history of ideas of the conquest of the cosmos as well as the chaotic state of our own planet. It is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of man’s first flight…
Matt Jukes – interview: ‘You need to dream big, so you can shoot for the stars, and maybe reach the moon’

Matt Jukes talks about the pandemic, the effect of lockdown on our mental health, and his immersive, digital artwork Feelscape, which creates an abstract landscape from the emotions of a person’s memory of an event
Harold Offeh – interview: ‘I am always asking: who is not part of the conversation? That is who you need to be addressing’

Offeh discusses boredom, curiosity and 1980s pop culture, the influence of punk and hip-hop, the joy of participatory creativity, social dance as a form of healing and artist-designed playgrounds
Everyday Heroes

An outdoor exhibition of art on London’s Southbank celebrates the heroes of lockdown with an eclectic collection of art and poetry
En plein air: art in the time of pandemic

With museums and galleries shut due to the pandemic, art had to be rethought. Online shows have their place but can’t compete with seeing the real thing. With that in mind, here is a roundup of New York’s best outdoor…
Alberta Whittle – interview: ‘No one can find Barbados on a map, whereas everyone can find the UK. That level of inattention galvanises so much of my work ’

The artist talks about the erasure of black people in everyday society, and how this informs and motivates her to challenge herself, and her audience, with her filmic and performative installations
Natacha Nisic – interview: ‘We needed a place for free expression, a visibility, a female presence’

The French artist and film-maker Natacha Nisic talks about The Crown Letter, the international participatory art project she launched in April, which offers a digital space for female artists from around the world
Shirley Wu: hong kong artists, women

The San Francisco-based, data-driven creative Shirley Wu has designed a scrolling mountainscape that maps data from Wikipedia to draw attention to Hong Kong’s female artists for the M+’s digital education platform
Mami Kataoka – interview: ‘We need to look at long-term museum management because this situation will linger’

The director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo explains how it has used its online presence and social media during the Covid-19 pandemic, and considers how this will shape the future of exhibitions and the funding of museums