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Everyday COVID-19 Art 'at home' and across borders: Community, Politics, and Resilience

Grant number: COV19\200629

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $11,875.15

  • Funder

    British Academy

  • Principal Investigator

    Dr. Laura  Sjoberg

  • Research Location

    United Kingdom

  • Lead Research Institution

    Royal Holloway University of London - School of Law and Social Sciences, Department of Politics and International Relations

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Other secondary impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, many people's interactions with visual art had been confined to galleries or museums, touring curated exhibits of art chosen for 'us' to consume. During COVID-19, the 'museums' have gone online, and many more people and households are engaging in producing and sharing art than had before the pandemic. This project explores and curates everyday COVID-19 art with global themes, interested in its implications for global community, resilience, and everyday art/museums. It does so through the production of an online museum of the everyday, produced by a collaboration of politics scholars with an interest in art and artists with an interest in politics. It aims to produce curations and research articles focused around the visual economies of everyday art in COVID-19 times, and their meanings for cosmopolitanism and globalization in times of crisis.