Are You A Foreign Artist? - Round Two
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

Are You A Foreign Artist? - Round Two

“Are You A Foreign Artist?” is series of reviews written by art critic Lori Waxman, in during her solo exhibition DISCOmbobulation at Co-Prosperity Sphere.

The following reviews were written between 3 and 9pm on Saturday, February 15th, 2020.

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Organized Protest in the Pandemic Era
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

Organized Protest in the Pandemic Era

We were told by Governor Pritzker to stay home and practice social distancing. When the pandemic hit hard and the courts closed down and prisoners started getting infected and dying we had to do something. On Monday, April 20, 2020, we organized a car caravan protest of 100 cars circling the Thompson Center.

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PSA: Juntos Sanaremos / Together We Will Heal
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

PSA: Juntos Sanaremos / Together We Will Heal

Juntos Sanaremos / Together We Will Heal is a public service announcement to remind our people that we deserve mental wellness. This campaign is my response as an undocumented queer artist to other Black and Latinx folk dealing with mental health.

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Live Concerts on Lumpen Radio
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

Live Concerts on Lumpen Radio

For the past few weeks Quarantine Times has been presenting live streaming concerts on it’s Twitch channel and live over the airwaves on Lumpen Radio, WLPN-LP , 105.5fm, Chicago. Here are this weekend’s archived shows..

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REVERY ALONE
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

REVERY ALONE

Artist Lise Haller Baggesen engages the Rebirth Poetry Ensemble to reflect on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, quarantine life, the fifth mass extinction, and REVERY ALONE.

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Sofia Moreno + Quarantine Times Instagram Takeover
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

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!

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The Deal Of The 14th Century
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

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.

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Dark and Light Matters: On Proximity, an Arts Magazine from a Previous Crisis
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

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.

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MUAs Deconstructed
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

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.

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of sapphire folk & what is airborne
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

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.

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A Quarantine Times Poster by Ryan Duggan
Edward Marszewski Edward Marszewski

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.

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