May 23, 2020
Blog
Our new ‘Postcards in Isolation: A different form of exile’ series launched this week.
We’ve been humbled by the way artists are responding to this call, and by their sheer generosity to share hard hitting reflections, observations, wanderings and coping strategies. The series will feature around twenty five artists’ responses – shared each Monday, Wednesday and Friday – on our Instagram account (#PostcardsInIsolationCA).
The series is full of creative responses by artists from our network, produced across weeks of physical isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, around this simple question:
‘Can sharing intimate, imaginative and quick ‘digital creative postcards’ offer insight into what artists in the Counterpoints Arts network are thinking, feeling and ‘making’ in the times of Covid-19? Can these new insights begin to serve as the catalyst for Counterpoints Arts’ next round of commissions?’
Our wish was to enable artists to share quick snapshots of their current circumstances, and to invite them to explore ideas about what should come next. We didn’t ask for ‘new projects’ – this is a stressful time and people’s health and wellbeing is our primary concern. We simply wanted to see, hear about and share some of the creative, hopeful, questioning, devastating, future projecting, funny, family and environmentally focused new feeling and thinking that artists are grappling with around this uncertain time – to reflect on the injustice but also (possibly) the possibilities.
‘Postcards…’ follows our consultation with artists, which will be informing Counterpoints Arts’ wider work over the next months.
The three artists setting the scene this week:
Bojana Janković (3 part)
A daily walk contributes greatly to your mental health.
Zia Ahmed
Bern O’Donoghue (3 part)
It’s enough to do the next scary thing and notice the good stuff.
We hope you find this series revealing and affecting, and feel inspired to add your own ‘postcard’ using #PostcardsInIsolationCA.
Follow our Instagram account to find new stories each Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the next few weeks.
