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

Co-vid 19 exquisite corpse no 6
June 2020

This sixth video features 21 artists (in order of assembly):

Chantal Allard
Aaron Pollard: Starring Chantal Allard
Jason Karman
Alexis O’Hara
Paul Litherland
Kim Maurice + Eva Stone
T.L. Cowan: Sound recorded at #JusticeForRegis march in Toronto May 30, 2020
Glenn Gear
Annabel Vaughn
Jackie Gallant
Emily Gan
Dayna McLeod
Lamathilde
Nancy Tobin
Karen Trask
Sonya Stefan
Nik Forrest
Bradley Colbourne
Stephen Lawson
kimura byol-nathalie lemoine
Heather Warren-Crow

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

We are redirecting all funds raised through the 2GatherApart fundraiser all summer 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.”