Annual student exchange facilitated by Nicole Hewitt and Ben Cain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During an exceptionally difficult period that included a pandemic and earthquakes, along with various other challenges, BA Art students from Zagreb Academy of Fine Art and LondonMet found ways to communicate, to share times, spaces, ideas\u2026 and to make work together over distance. Ordinarily -and this has been happening for more than 10 years now- this is an exchange project that involves real physical travel between London and Zagreb. On other occasions this project would also include an exhibition event at GMK Zagreb. Travel restrictions and social distancing have meant that we have had to manage the project very differently this year. Instructions, links, images, sound, text etc. were exchanged online, and following remote discussions on various platforms people responded to each other\u2019s prompts and started making work. Much of that work dealt with changing conditions for interpersonal contact, and with world-changing situations at home and on the street (the period of the exchange coincided with the murder of George Floyd). Some of that work is easy to call collaborative, and some of it perhaps isn\u2019t, but everything that\u2019s presented here has developed from a shared space of remote contact and from attempts to exchange in a meaningful way over distance at a time of immense and intense change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
List of participants: Sun\u010dica Svilkovi\u0107, Isabel Southey, Luka Tomi\u0107, Stuart Lee, Ante Dujmovi\u0107, Karla Labrador, Mayara Garcia Deo, Marijeta Mika\u010di\u0107, Jilly Topping, Ingeborg Reichel, Eun Howie, Karla Zrin\u0161\u010dak, Konrad Jabukowski When the George Floyd incidence had happened, the writing was one of the ways to express and support the protest. In this video, cutting and throwing letters is a metaphor for violence and division from the communities and the race. The echoing voices is a metaphor for the people’s voice integrated with one rather than individuals; having a sense of community is more potent than a sense of individuality. In this context of my poem, the virus indicates inequality. I hope one day we all have an equal society regardless of the colour of skin and be kind to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eun Mi Howie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n