This is the 11th installment of the co-vid (collaborative video) project. We invited artists to make separately while apart an exquisite corpse, and suggested “Magical Animals” as a theme. If this theme didn’t resonate, artists were free to do whatever they wanted.

Co-vid 19 exquisite corpse no 11
August 2020

Our 11th video features 16 artists (in order of assembly):

Stephen Lawson
Beth Frey
Aaron Pollard
Bradley Colbourne, music: Keeper of Bees by Kelly Latimore
Dayna McLeod
Monique Romeiko
Annabel Vaughan
Glenn Gear
T.L. Cowan
Paul Litherland
Nik Forrest & Alanna Thain
Jo-Anne Balcaen
The Poodles
Karen Trask
Nancy Tobin
Alexis O’Hara

We’ve set up a fundraiser for local artists who are struggling through this hard time.
If you’re able, contribute to this fund: gofundme.com/f/2gatherapartists-fundraiser

All summer we are redirecting all funds raised through the 2GatherApart fundraiser to two Montreal-based artist-led efforts to resist anti-Black racism and to support Black lives: Taking What We Need and the direct community fundraising efforts of Shanice Nicole.

Taking What We Need is “an informal community group dedicated to helping low income transwomen get what they need through discretionary funding” and they are currently “prioritizing Black and Indigenous trans-feminine ppl and transwomen in Montreal” (facebook.com/takingwhatweneed/).

Shanice Nicole is a community organizer, equity advisor, writer and spoken word artist who solicits and redistributes funds through direct community fundraising efforts for Black and Indigenous folks in need, because “cash in a person’s bank account offers some breath.”