LUCÍA LÓPEZ GARCÍA-MONTEJO is an Uruguayan visual artist, currently living and studying in Berlin.
“My works vary within mediums and languages, from analogue filmmaking to the recent inclusion of animation and 3D virtual environments. The medium is considered a bridge of expression, where such relationship es key to research upon gender and identity- androgyny sets the pathway.
From Hell and Heaven is a series of photos related to what's meant to me a new death of God, but also an arousal of intrinsic faith.
Malibu, however, is one piece of a personal project which sets me in different places, taking myself on virtual voyages to distinct destinations while being isolated at home, researching upon the imaginary of the internet and our constructed ideas of such locations thanks to the internet and capitalism- places where I've never been, nor might ever will.
Last but not least, God Bless America, which wonders upon contemporary encounters, how they might be endangered or transformed due to the cover pandemic which will result on a VR collaboration piece by the end of this year.”
by Los Angeles based band, The Ivories formed in late 2017 by bassist and singer Bryan Haha.
The band released their first single “Red” in December 2017, and since then has become a multimedia art project. Most recently, The Ivories have released the second single from their upcoming album, Amber, entitled “Scared Of Weed” accompanied by a video by director Dan Watt.
theivories.fanlink.to/scaredofweed
T shot performance using porcelain slip, clay penis, trans* body, band-aid, and alcohol wipe. Performed for Zoom audience.
Melon lives and works in Chicago as a performative art-maker
// POST-DRAG POST-PORN POST-COVID-19 POST-UNDERGROUND POST-ABSTRACT PENISAVE BODY-WORLD //
The Foie Gras Antithesis is a solo debut, converging somewhere on the crossroads of today's idea of post-punk/rock music and a deep misunderstanding of the modern pop/hip-hop/Top 40 formula.
The music video 'Terrify' was filmed + edited while in isolation in Winlaw, BC
Nikolas L. B. is a self-schooled musician currently residing in Vancouver, BC, until now simply known as a part of the post-punk quartet;
Bored Décor
Nikolas recorded and mixed everything in their home.
It includes performances by Gus Dixon (Bored Décor), William Choy (Crack Cloud) and Veronika Yemelyanova.
It was mastered by Colin Spratt.
Cold Comfort
I know what you’re really carrying, ice-cream man.
Your truck constantly playing Pop Goes the Weasel. (Damn you!)
You and your Big Sticks and Fudgesicles and Snow Cones.
Your pretend promise of Covid comfort on a sweet stick.
I know what you’re really chilling, ice-cream man.
Pop go the bodies, Pop go the corpses. Pop, pop, pop. (You weasel!)
As you drive in and out of this senior trailer park.
The morgues are full, but there’s room in your truck.
You’re with the government, aren’t you ice-cream man?
Keeping the body counts low. Hiding the true toll
of this crazy pandemic. (Thank God, I’m still sane!)
But I’ve finally figured you out. (Et tu, Sundae?)
All around the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel.
All around the mulberry bush, shelter, shelter, shelter.
Elemental 19
This is a morning to grieve.
Both bone and flesh, fiery and fearful.
The earth slows its vibrations.
Not as many people moving.
This is a time for slow reckoning,
stalking hunched neighbors from the porch
as the ponderous April rains
abandon their dead in cold puddles.
And the last breaths of the doomed
marry the moans of the stricken.
This is a morning to grieve.
Not as many people moving.
Love 19
Son of SARS with pedigree of pestilence, death deliverer,
equal curse to Spanish princess and American pauper,
deceiver of dunces and torment to travelers,
you roam cureless and take my breath away.
I love your microscopic
red spikes and ivory orb.
I’d like to make lollipops in your image --
puffy cupcakes and tattoos, too!
I quarantine but await your arrival.
My tongue is your red carpet.
Please enter, floating contagion,
silent slayer. My beloved.
Should I start a fan club?
Just a cough or sneeze makes me delirious
for more news about you:
CNN, Twitter, Facebook, Time. Tell me everything!
Where were you born?
Who’s your favorite all-time victim?
What’s with you and really old people?
If you could be any plague in history, what would it be?
I am infatuated.
I am afraid
you’re driving me crazy.
You roam cureless and take my breath away.
Johnny Bender, aka, Brutus Chieftain, aka Bombastus, aka John, is a founder of the poetry performance troupe Poets in Distress and a member of Inlandia Literary Institute. He lives in Moreno Valley, California.
This work is part of a larger project with Cati Porter, whose work is featured in Volume 15
illustrations and video by Joel C. Bautista
Keziah Owusu is an artist from South London.
“I usually work in oil, painting images of food influenced by baroque still life's. When coming back home in a hurry to quarantine with my family, I accidently left all my paints in my uni dorm up north, resulting in me creating textile pieces and starting to explore digital collage. 'Big Bra’- a work in progress- is my first collage documenting the creation of one "big ass bra".”
Eliza Faull is a New Zealand artist living in Sydney, Australia.
“I work primarily with digital software. I usually make digital prints and videos. The digital prints are semi collage based. I try to give them a glitch art theme to them, whereas my videos are more music and dance incorporated.
I’ve done a few virtual exhibitions over this quarantine period, seen here and here”