Artists on the Front Line

I'm delighted to be part of the The Healing Arts 2021 campaign, a call to action by the world of the arts in response to the mental health crisis caused by COVID-19, 22-26 March 2021, and organised by CULTURUNNERS as part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) series of solidarity events.

On the 26th, I am in conversation with Anna Somers Cocks, founder editor, The Art Newspaper; Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, co-founder, UK Black Pride; and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin.

We will be talking about how artists are working on the frontlines of the current crisis and how the pandemic might change the art-world systems and values of the past decades.

This panel will also mark the launch of several projects being supported by the Artists Response Fund including in Iraq, in partnership with Community Jameel, documenting and sustaining traditional cultural practices to address mental health needs among the Yazidi and Marsh Arab communities, and on the Navajo Nation in Arizona.

More info here: https://lnkd.in/dGQqG6D