The world is well into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. So far the toilet paper and pasta seem to be holding up well. I recall reading, sometime at the end of February – about a virus alert in Italy. Alarmingly large numbers of people were becoming infected by a severe respiratory virus and... Continue Reading →
Dean interviews M G Boulter
21 FRAGMENTS: LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 / an online collaboration involving 29 people, from around the world (musicians, visual artists, writers, filmmakers). Between June and November 2020 – the project seeks to explore these unusual times in a world of pandemic — through picture, word and music, poetry, song, essay and visual art.... Continue Reading →
WHY I’M NOT INTO CONSPIRACY THEORIES – ESPECIALLY IN 2020
I read somewhere one shouldn’t make fun of conspiracy theory (posts). Well fuck that – I find them irritating, insulting, and yes – dangerous. It’s remarkable how ‘new-age’, esoteric-driven folk are falling for them. That is a generalization and I hope it’s a flimsy impression on my part.In Germany – the conspiracy theory merry-go-round has... Continue Reading →
We are into the middle of 2020 (though given the nature of calendars, years defined by different cultures and traditions - ambiguity is close at hand). It’s anywhere between a few months and 6 months that people around the world have, in one way or another, to one degree or another – been affected and... Continue Reading →
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 An online multi-media collaborationRunning until October 2020
yes another soapbox
With Tantrum Trump monopolizing the fields of satire, disruption and outrage, and Covid-19 dominating global grief, conspiracy garbage, and pandemic death – it’s difficult to get a handle on the events that have consumed life in 2020 – everywhere and for everyone (though some more or less so than others). That Trump exists is an... Continue Reading →