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

Co-vid 19 exquisite corpse no 7
June 2020

This seventh video features 16 artists (in order of assembly):

kimura byol-nathalie lemoine
Sonya Stefan
Alexis O’Hara
Dayna McLeod
Lamathilde
T.L. Cowan
Annabel Vaughn
credits: Fiona Apple 6s taken from Fetch the Bolt Cutters and BLM font is by Ryan Feerer
Glenn Gear
Jason Karman
Celine Pereira
Karen Trask
Jackie Gallant
lisa g
Alanna Thain
Jen Fisher
Aaron Pollard

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 for the 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.”