Workshop with Shannon Jackson (UC Berkeley) 

It is now routine to say that Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on the arts across the globe. It is also routine to celebrate the ‘resilience’ and ‘innovation’ of artists as they faced the pandemic, developed new coalitions, and devised new aesthetic forms. Navigating these spaces of devastation and celebration—and seeded by Shannon Jackson’s April 13 lecture at TBA– this workshop will include reading, dialogue, and a variety of exercises in order to take a collective inventory of the pandemic’s effects. We will consider how certain forms — screen-based art, outdoor art— rose in prominence during this time. We will consider how artists and art venues produced new forms across media and new commissioning structures. Throughout, we will consider the place of artistic venues in a perpetually-deferred “post” pandemic world, understanding how cultural workers accommodated and resisted this changing landscape while also plotting provisional infrastructures for the future.

Dates and Schedule: 14-16 de Abril de 2022 | 2pm – 6pm
Venue: c.e.m – centro em movimento, R. dos Fanqueiros, 150 – 1º, 1100-232. Lisboa
Credits of the picture: ÓThe Builders Association | imagens da performance ‘I Agree to the Terms’ 2022

For more information about the workshop, please contact: pcaspao@gmail.com