Home, Health and Power: Exploring Experiences of and Responses to the Pandemic through the Global @covid19quilt Project
Home, Health and Power: Exploring Experiences of and Responses to the Pandemic through the Global @covid19quilt Project
Author(s): Tal Fitzpatrick, Alyce McGovernSubject(s): Visual Arts, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Studies in violence and power, Health and medicine and law, Social Informatics, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: COVID-19; Pandemic Art; Participatory Art; Digital Quilt; Interdisciplinary;
Summary/Abstract: This article explores the @Covid19Quilt, a global digital participatory art project started by Australian artists Kate Just and Tal Fitzpatrick, designed to gather and share people's experience of the COVID-19 pandemic via craft. Starting with an overview of this continuing project, this article applies an interdisciplinary lens to consider the significance of making and sharing during a pandemic. Drawing on a preliminary thematic analysis of the quilt, we discuss three broad motifs that have characterised the project thus far: home, health, and power. In exploring these three themes, the paper highlights the ways in which the @Covid19Quilt project is an important cultural artefact that draws together ‘threads of collective meaning and understanding’ (Ferrell, Hayward, Young 2015, 3) and opens up possibilities for transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogue.
Journal: Estetyka i Krytyka
- Issue Year: 61/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 43-68
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English
