Many international art institutions post short videos on YouTube or Vimeo with the focus on modern and contemporary art. One of the most active seems to be British Tate that podcasts interviews with artists, performances or walks through exhibitions on a weekly basis.
Week 40, Teacups, Elephants and White Gloves : Animated figures come alive and draw into sharing their fears, hopes and crazy adventures.
Week 39, Let’s Dance : Let’s celebrate this locked-down New Year’s Eve by dancing away the end of 2020. There are dances here for everyone, traditional, classical, hip hop or vogueing, your choice.
Week 38, Sandwiched; A programme that begins and ends with the making of a sandwich seems not only an apt way to bookend a programme about food, but perhaps also serves as a comment on our present way of life: sandwiched between the inside and outside, between lockdown and social distancing, between housework, home office or schooling of children among many other things.
Week 37, Reality Check : Compare the film programme from week 16 with the programme from week 36. The 20 weeks between them include the beginning of the first lockdown and the battle against the second wave of the Covi19 pandemic, between the The Isolation Experiment and Reality Check.
Objects made by hand, some traditional, some unusual, some unexpected, and all show the ingenuity and dexterity of their makers.
Week 35, Health, Drugs and Rock n Roll, Drugs can heal or destroy, they can cause death or prevent it.
Week 34, I am Unbeatable, This programme is about violence against women – violence against minority groups, domestic violence, human trafficking, child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and femicide. The problem knows no geographical borders, race or class boundaries, it is embedded in the power structure and inequalities of patriarchal society.
Week 33, This is me : What seems so obvious—taken for granted even—that people should live as who they are is the result of a historical struggle as well as being an ongoing one.
Week 32, Upside Down World, Strange times make for strange programmes. Follow this one associatively through an upside down world, a world that had once seemed solid and is turning out to be quite undependable.
