When the World is Sick
a folkLAB experiment created for "How Well?" a curated project for Carnegie Mellon's Center for the Arts in Social Distancing
On the week of May 1st, 2020 four artists of diverse backgrounds and disciplines participated in a virtual, anonymous, exquisite corpse.
Each artist was...
assigned a medium to work in from a list of their top 3 preferred mediums.
given up to 24 hours to complete their artwork. as long as the work took place in one 24-hour period, they could spend as much or as little time on it as they liked.
allowed to use or incorporate the prompt (in the case of the first artist) or the previous artists’ work as much or as little as they saw fit.
asked to consider their capacity, compensation ($100), and general well-being when approaching their art-making process.
The first artist was given a prompt. The following artist received the previous artists work as their prompt.
Here are the art-works in the order that they were created:
a poetic essay—by Rachel Greene
Between Two Worlds: a fairytale—by Nicole Gallagher
Élégie for Bowel Destruction, Pt. 2 (improvised music)—by Samira Mendoza
On May 20th, 2020 all the artists came together remotely on Zoom—facilitated by curator and folkLAB founder Abigail Lis-Perlis— to meet, reveal their art-works to each other, and discuss the process. (Video, 1 hour and 49 minutes)