Surfing the Shift (or riding the Lockdown), one helpful video at a time. Clips to put air under your domestic wings
Our (ir)regular round-up of the wonderful semiotic excess of our creative-economy times - so much beauty and form wanting to get into our troubled interiors, and help our psyches get through these turbulent system-shifts.
Above (from Aeon) is the poem-animation How to Be at Home. This is a Covid-era update of the original 2010 poem, which was a viral hit for the Canadian musician and poet Tanya Davis and the Canadian filmmaker Andrea Dorfman. Aeon: “The resulting short is an artful – and, depending on your current degree of solitude, perhaps cathartic – meditation on the many conflicting emotions inspired by being forced to spend time at home during a crisis”. Stand ready. (Also, maybe check-in with our post on Noreena Hertz and loneliness as a policy problem.)
One way to cope with quarantine is to visualise a world - maybe even next summer - in which our efforts (both social and medical) have paid off, and we can bathe in the beauty of our public worlds again (ideally, with a deepened eco-consciousness to go with it). Here a lovely, hip video to help that - from the electro artist Ford, titled, “Fruit and Sun” (most appropriately).
It’s also possible to laugh our way through this. Above (and translated in the subtitles) is a tweet of the German Federal Government’s latest information video on lockdown - cheekily playing on whatever expectations of heaviosity we might presume from such a source… There are others (to be translated) here, gathered under the hashtag #besonderehelden - “special heroes”…
Any other amazing audio-visual out there we should know about, post the links below.