Sofia Moreno + Quarantine Times Instagram Takeover
My name is Sofia Moreno @sofia________moreno , and I’m a mixed media and curator at @aesthetic_disorder_ currently living and working between Chicago and #cdmx. Now it’s my turn to take over this account this weekend ... hot!
The Deal Of The 14th Century
QT presents a recently discovered script of a press conference during the bubonic plague in Wawel castle in Krakow.
Dark and Light Matters: On Proximity, an Arts Magazine from a Previous Crisis
Just before the pandemic, I volunteered to help archive Proximity, a slickly designed arts magazine by some of the folks behind the Quarantine Times. I initially expected it to be a somewhat chaotic exercise in nostalgia for decade old art hipster culture. Then the Covid-19 crisis made Proximity seem immediate, because 2008 was another moment when all masks came off the capitalist death spiral, and it shaped the sensibility of the magazine. The nature and severity of the housing crash was different but not separate - instead, it flows from then to now.
MUAs Deconstructed
Chicago based sound artist and DJ Ariel Zetina re-envisions her recent album, MUA's at the End of the World two ways to reach through the isolation of quarantine.
Quarantine Comics: Days 44-49
Quarantine Day 44-49 in the life of artist Grant Reynolds.
of sapphire folk & what is airborne
Because of who we are here, it's important to connect today to history, to remember we're not the first to walk into a mess like this. We're not the first to see power like that. And yet, also because of who we are, we feel loneliness and horror in new ways very specific to this time. In his new chapbook, of sapphire folk and what is airborne, written and designed for Quarantine Times, the legend avery r. young does both.
A Quarantine Times Poster by Ryan Duggan
Ryan Duggan is an artist and printer living in Chicago where he operates Paper Hat—a print shop/art gallery with his partner Elizabeth Kovach. He made a special print for the Quarantine Times.
This Week’s Live Lumpen Radio Twitch Concerts
This week on Lumpen Radio Twitch Channel
How to Start Your Own Economy During a Pandemic
Andi Crist and JP Culligan talk about the development of their Sacramento River CSH (Community Supported Homesteading) project, which is down the block in a neighborhood near you.
Be Thinking About Nothing
My audio recording, dreamy and trail of consciousness was combined with footage made from a pre-quarantined Chicago with its spirit in full bloom. It’s a feedback loop of remembering and forgetting and remembering to forget. Past, Present, and Future. Somewhere it all meets at a single point that is hollow on the inside holding everything and nothing.
New Horizons in Experimental Music
Our May 2nd Lumpen Radio Twitch Concert series ended with a standout performance by Lil' Jürg Frey (Dicky Bahto, Erika Bell, Morgan Gerstmar, Stephanie Smith) inside the world of Animal Crossing. The members of Lil' Jürg Frey soon tested the sonic elements of the game using instruments, household objects, outfit changes and avatar reactions. What resulted was a five part experimental score taking place in a virtual home, within four rooms.
Dispatches from a Desperate Time, Part II
The Quarantine Times, in partnership with the Newberry Library, presents the second in a series of dispatches by Chicago historian, Paul Durica, detailing how the city responded to the influenza epidemic of 1918 and how that moment helps us understand where we are today.
An Interview with Chef Bill Kim
Quarantine Times Monday Editor, Won Kim, talks to Bill Kim, one of Chicago’s pioneering Chefs. He opened up his legendary Urbanbelly noodle and dumpling joint in Avondale back in 2008 and has expanded into several other restaurants and concepts throughout Chicago.
Finding Hope in the Backyard
A series of drawings by Naomi Hawksley about finding hope at home, and in regrowth and being a little silly during this weird time.
I'm Eating Cake
Photographer and GlitterGuts co-founder, Sarah Joyce, turns to self portraiture in a time of uncertainty.
Common Field Convening After Parties - NIGHT 2
Following the Common Field Convening’s Saturday sessions, Public Media Institute will present a series of experimental after-party events to help gather far-flung attendees. Online social spaces and performances via Twitch & Zoom from 8pm until late in the hopes of fostering the kinds of connections and conversations that happen after a day of panels at the real life conference. Concerts, games, break out party rooms, special guests and more await, in an experience guided by Lumpen’s Jeremiah Chiu and Team Precariat’s Brandon Alvendia.
Ode to the Unknown
Songwriter Angela James casts a spell for comfort in uncertain times and observes how care taking is shifting during the pandemic.
Making Space, Taking Space, and Finding Anti-Utopia Through Reanimated Images and The Cinematic Experience
Film, video, and digital media artist and curator, Emily Eddy, reflects on DIY culture, Anti-Utopia, institutional power structures and the accessibility of artwork in a digital world.
Are You A Foreign Artist? - Round One
Check out the first installment of reviews written by art critic Lori Waxman, in partnership with Li-Ming Hu during her solo exhibition DISCOmbobulation at Co-Prosperity Sphere. The reviews were written between 5 and 11pm on Saturday, February 1st, 2020 with the goal of supporting artists applying for their O-1 B visa applications.
Are You A Foreign Artist?
Last February, as part of her DISCOmbobulation show at CoProsperity Sphere, Li-Ming Hu invited renowned art historian and critic Lori Waxman, in association with her project 60 WRD/MIN, to collaborate on the project Are You A Foreign Artist? Artists in need of reviews for their O-1 B visa applications could sign up to get one, on a first-come, first-served basis. Over the course of three Saturdays in February 2020, Lori wrote a total of 30 reviews live, working at a desk in one of the Co-Prosperity Sphere storefront windows.