Living Art During and After a Pandemic: A Manifesto
Living Art During and After a Pandemic: A Manifesto This manifesto stems from our duty to communicate our perception of the world during the COVID19 pandemic. It is also an attempt to articulate our thoughts on the meaning of making art, which is inseparable from the way we understand life overall. Although this pandemic has made our realities more difficult in certain aspects, especially the loss of loved ones and unsettling uncertainty that has come with it , we are hopeful that coming out of this we shall have a better understanding of what it means to be human. The manifesto thus does not only apply to life under this pandemic but hopes to point out how capitalism strips us away from our artistic capacities and mentalities and how vital it is that we resist its forces after COVID19 is over. Pandemic or no pandemic, what truly kills us is the system that ingrains us with a sense of competition against our fellow humans, that breeds individualism and otherness
