Anna Lindal, Editor for VIS #6
Theme: Contagion
The issue, which features five expositions, deals in different ways with touch, vulnerability and transmission; contagion becomes a creative and destructive concept in the shadow of the pandemic. ...
Jennifer Torrence
Soft to the Touch: Performance, Vulnerability, and Entanglement in the Time of Covid
What is the nature of human touch and human contact in contemporary music performance? ...
Alexandra Crouwers
The Plot, The Compositor, and Mourning/Mistakes
The cleared forest became The Plot: a witness to climate change, and a gateway to dealing with ecological grief. ...
Karen Schiff
Viral Drawings: Transmission BC / QT / AV
This exposition reflects on the drawings I was making at different stages during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Timo Menke
Corona Influentia and the darker matter
The aim of my work is to offer an outline of what I refer to as a dark enlightenment, by using the ontological and epistemological discourses that humans are entangled in. ...
Liv Kristin Holmberg
Contagion as a creation machine
What might the history of theology and of the Christian church tell humans about our relationship to our own bodies? ...
Anna Lindal, Eliot Mmantidi Moleba, Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen
A conversation about the theme Contagion
Filmed discussion about the theme Contagion, September 2021. ...