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What is the Lockdown e-zine?
The Lockdown Zine aims to empower all cultural sector workers whose voices are underrepresented in current discourse.
The platform is collaborative and open to allies as well as critical friends who share the same concerns, it aims to reflect the diversity of lives experienced in our social distancing times.
"ReJoIcE! Our Times Are InToLeRaBlE. Take CoUrAgE, For The Worst Is A Harbinger Of The BeSt...The ApOcAlYpSe WiLl BLoSsOm"
Jenny Holzer
Like a time capsule, the Lockdown Zine looks to curate the experiences of those during lockdown. To collate the unique yet universal feelings, thoughts and movements this time had formed.
Explore the experiences found both inside and out side the home by cultural workers during the pandemic...
Editor's Letter: Issue 1
Welcome to the first issue of the Lockdown Zine.
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The last six months have been relentlessly volatile and unsettling for everyone, but Covid-19 has revealed some deep-rooted inequalities that have exposed the Culture sector for its hypocrisy.
In this edition, we have wanted to give a voice to the precariously employed art workers: front of house, security guards, shop/cafe assistants, cleaners, all these staff who are the welcoming customer-facing army of smiles behind customer service in the cultural sector...
Exploring the inside effects during this time LOCKED IN is where artists contemplate what it has meant to be kept closed in. From personal introspection to the re-understanding of space, these artworks dive into the INSIDE...
Despite being told to keep away from the physical outside, and being contained within our mental states, coming out or being forcibly pushed out of the inside, has lead to the creation of work that explored the LOCKED OUT.
To find out more about the team and the e-zine click the button to know more...
Meet the artists and the contributors behind the e-zine. With a little about the people behind the art, and links to see more of their work, click the button to explore.
To get more information about support that is available to cultural workers, click through to find out about the PCS Union and other ways to access help.