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my small flat, my head, my life, my job,
my fears, my thoughts,
my dreams, my marriage, my family, my country, with my kids, my dog, myself.
Staying in can have adverse inside effects, which manifested differently across our contributors. See how they coped, how they stayed inside and who/what they were LOCKED IN with....
Fish tank, 2020
Have you ever thought about how a fish feels like being in a tank every day?
Since the Lockdown began I started thinking about the meaning of the everyday quarantine. We actually put some of our pets in an unchosen quarantine.
ID Project
A collage series made during the confinement on which I base my study on the theme of cultural imposition on first generations of immigrants.
Working about the body as a political and cultural issue.
CONTENT WARNING: MATURE
Grunder 2.0
Before the easing of lockdown restrictions in June there were a number of people continuing to arrange hookups.
If the idea of ignoring the advice of Government and Health Experts and pleas from front line key workers doesn't raise a huge red flag to you, then perhaps consider that this potential hookup really does not have your best interests or safety at heart.
Please be safe, please be sensible, please be patient.
GRUNDER IS WATCHING.
Block 1, 2 & 3
Whilst quarantined alone in Madrid for over 2 months where we could only leave to purchase necessities, I couldn’t stop thinking about how 2/3 of Spaniards live in flats, some without sunlight; and the pressure on relationships and wellbeing that the pandemic will have caused.
Inside the Box
By Keda Richens
Bedroom/living room/office
22nd April 2020
"Suckered"
During the day my futon/sofa/bed in my bedroom/living room/office is covered by a teal tapestry octopus that draws me in with her tentacles. Underneath the octopus my flowered linen bedding does the same at night, encasing me in a hay fever fog and forcing my dry eyes to clench shut. It’s not exactly comfortable; the futon lumps and sags make it difficult for my arthritic fibromyalgia’d limb to pull themselves over or out. But still it’s hard to resist.
I dream of an empty room with doors opening onto a garden, an ugly but proper office chair, and two large tables...
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Veiled
The work is an etching with a poem that refers to unseen things that affect us all strongly.
By Mary Hayes
Dancer in her living room
This choreography shows the dancer dancing in their own living room. The purpose is to express subtlety, fragility of dance and music which is emphasised by antique interior, subtle light and meditative music by Chopin.
This is a small image of dancer from pandemic time of spring 2020.
Both choreography and music are performed by dancer (Nocturne by Chopin was recorded by artist before).
The taken-for-granted is now the up-for-grabs
By Rik Fisher
A selection of images from a collage
project subverting print media to explore
questions around potentialities of change and
capitalist realism.
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