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Submit Work for Caribbean InTransit Vol. 3, Issue 7 and for Arts InTransit, Festival IV

Submit Work (Dis)-Ease: Status of the Artist

In the fiction of our reality of the global pandemic of COVID-19, the artist has found himself/herself particularly dis-located. However, while old norms are de-familiarized creating an extensive sense of dissonance for most of society, the state of dis –ease for the artist is familiar. It is a continuous dis- ease with the norms of society that has in fact often produced the artist and fuels his works. It is distress, disgust, distrust of societal values, ways of thinking and seeing that fires his vision. It is dis-location, dis-aster and dys-topia that produces his/her visions for utopic production. Crisis can thus often be a valued space for the artist as creative impulse, an affective respsonse is potentially, theoretically, at its height in this moment. The affective response is meaningfully channeled. Nonetheless, the practical safety nets that can help to absorb the shock of this moment of rampant dis-ease are more often than not, absent, especially for Caribbean arts practitioners.

 

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