This is the 9th installment of the co-vid (collaborative video) project. We invited artists to make separately while apart an exquisite corpse, and suggested “Vacation?” as a theme. If this theme didn’t resonate, artists were free to do whatever they wanted.

Co-vid 19 exquisite corpse no 9
July 2020

This 9th video features 20 artists (in order of assembly):

Dayna McLeod
Vagaram Choudhary
Samantha Blanchette
Karin Haze
kimura byol-nathalie lemoine
Leanne Dyer
Alexis O’Hara
Julie Lequin
Aaron Pollard
Céline Pereira
Annabel Vaughan
Karen Trask
The Here & Now
MI-RA
Nik Forrest & Alanna Thain
Stephen Lawson
Kim Kielhofner
lisa g: music, Vacation by the The Go-Go’s
Monique Romeiko
LaMathilde

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.”