This is the 8th installment of the co-vid (collaborative video) project. We invited artists to make separately while apart an exquisite corpse, and suggested “Weird Time(s)” as a theme. If this theme didn’t resonate, artists were free to do whatever they wanted.

Co-vid 19 exquisite corpse no 8
July 2020

This 8th video features 27 artists (in order of assembly):

Angelica Rocca & Sonya Stefan
Karen Trask
KlepTom
Fernando Belote
Newton Moraes & Julie Hanson
Arnaud & Aline K/NELL
The Here & Now
Chantal Allard
Lamathilde
emily gan
Dayna McLeod
Karin Hazé
Annabel Vaughan
Aaron Pollard
Annie Hunting
MI-RA
kimura byol-nathalie lemoine
Jackie Gallant (music: Weird Times by Home Alone)
Alexis O’Hara
Stephen Lawson
Nik Forrest & Alanna Thain
Helena Martin Franco
Jason Karman
Paul Litherland
Kim Kielhofner
lisa g
Celine Pereira

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.”