![]() Nothing about the construction is beyond me from a technical perspective, and if my carport was a garage, it would be a solvable problem. To be clear, with an appropriate space to lay out the parts during construction, and leave them laid out over multiple sessions, I could definitely build it. ![]() While the grant was acquitted to the satisfaction of the managing arts organisation, the project ran into the very problems it was trying to solve – I couldn’t build it in the space I had available to build it. I received an Arts Qld resilience grant early in Covid, to try to build an accessible storage cabinet within my carport. Unfortunately, this was one of the first casualties of Covid, as getting people together in a room, while sharing a device pressed against their faces, wasn’t Covid-safe. Prior to Covid, I had worked around a lack of studio space by moving my practice into Virtual Reality – and that worked really well, resulting in the Noosa Mnemonic project with Noosa Library Service. More so when your process is industrial – metal fabrication, for example. Making art under these circumstances is difficult at best. The best practices recommended – universal mask-wearing, purifiers for air conditioning systems, working from home, are all being abandoned, seemingly on the basis that if we just “get back to normal”, that life will somehow become normal, in fundamentally abnormal times.Īnd so, the vulnerable cower in our homes, afraid of the very air outside, knowing that Covid, which hangs in said air exactly as cigarette smoke does, could waft in through an open window, courtesy of a neighbour. Society at large has absolved itself of any obligation to change in order to protect the vulnerable, and the costs that would entail. ![]() In this brave new world, public health has been replaced with personal responsibility – not a responsibility to protect your fellow citizen, but rather, a responsibility to protect yourself, and shoulder the sole burden for doing so. Life has become one giant exercise in existential fear, as we see policy makers embark on a brave new era in which eugenics, expressed as “the majority of deaths are in people with comorbidities”, is the order of the day. For people with compromised immune systems, or who live with people with compromised immune systems, this has been even harder. Covid has been a hard time for the arts, and for artists. ![]()
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