The INSTITUTE FOR
AESTHETIC ADVOCACY
"Contaminated"
An Art Exhibition from the Early Pandemic on COVID's Cultural Impact
Minneapolis, May 2020.
In Partnership with: Institute for Digital Humanity
Gallery Program:
In this time of uncertainty, COVID-19 -- both at its height and in its aftermath -- has contaminated everything: our homes, our lives, our communication, and even our shared reality. But how can we use art to cleanse and decontaminate our world of the “political plagues” -- cultural divisions, medical inequities, and digital pollution -- that COVID has called greater attention to? In order to start disinfecting ourselves -- and re-constructing our shared humanity (and reality) -- the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy and the Institute for Digital Humanity solicited submissions to our juried show “Contaminated.” Focusing on how COVID-19 has invaded every aspect of our lives -- but curated to catalyze cross-cultural conversations on our post-COVID-19 existence -- “Contaminated” was hosted (virtually and physically) on May 7th, 2020.
Event Footage
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Speakers:
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Aaron Mckain, IAA Creative Director
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Allison Baker, IAA​
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Topics:
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COVID-19 and Mental Health​
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Public Health in the Digital Age
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Medical Inequities
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Art Advocacy
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Cultural and Digital Divisions
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Art Exhibits
Zoom Meeting at 1pm2pm3pm4 by Sophie Warrick
Zen of the South by Jason West
Your Face Looks Familiar by Malgorzata Marta Zych
Viral by Elisabeth Morissette
Untitled by Macy Hyland
Unemployed During Coronacrisis 2020 by Gottfried Binder
The New Everyday by Sophie Donahue
The Love That Heals by Ciro Di Fiore
The Great Isolation by Josh Odd
Technology vs. School in This Trying Game by Emma Harrell
Stay at home, it's not a weak flu! by Guilherme Bergamini
Spring Flowers by BARD
Ocean Flowers by BARD
Canyon Flowers by BARD
Wash by Eusty Eveland
Quarantine Embodied by Kesha Lagniappe
Slipping by Max Vasilchuk
Spring 2020 by Christine Stoddard
Sit, Stay, Be Safe and Stay Well by Rachel Brokenicky
Running from the Man by DJ Hill
Seeing Monsters While in Isolation by Josh Odd
Quarantine Easter by Agnieszka Abramowicz
Remember to Thank the Universe by Shawn Ballarin
Quarantine by Rachel Brokenicky
Personal Space by Erhan Us
QuaranTeen by Madeline Rye
Pillow Pet by Tyler Jesse
Pandemic v1.0 and Personal Space by Erhan Us
Cleaning for Doomsday by Shelby Teal
Captain Trips by Josh Odd
Anxiety by Sonia Gil
Carrier of the Plague by David G. Danielson
Ambers by Rocio Soncini
A Papyrex Prayer to San Bernardino by Samantha Fisher and Simon Astor
A Picnic by Shelby Teal
Open Windows by Matt Haney
Pandemic 2020 by Anthony R. Whelihan
On the day of the trial, the rats failed to appear. By Andi Haus
No Future by Erhan Us
No. 554 by d. cleverly
Mowing The Lawn by Phoebe Grace
Mood by Meike Wallum
Masked Against COVID-19 by Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani
Loneliness by Ola Delecka
Leveling by Jason Brown
March by Phoebe Grace
Lady Liberty Clapback by DJ Hill
Isolate by Jason West
Ennui Isometric by Matti Doroff
Izolare by Annabella Meyer
Hunterwasser Gas Mask by Elisabeth Morissette
Faces of the COVID-19 Epidemic by Pawel
Circle Dance by Lauren Woods
Escapism by Ian Olsan
Distance and Panic byb Rusty Eveland
Exponential Growth by Allison Fox Schneider
Emergency by Erhan Us
Earth Overtaken by Bethany Pitchford
Crisis Requires Solidarity by Mara Garcia
Disproportionate Worry by Shelby Teal
Day 1 by Julie Simon
COVID-19 On the Frontlines...Of a Hardware Store by Abigail Dorland
COVID-19 Collages by Pawel Pacholec
Cover Your Mouth by Nikyra Capson
To Life by Eileen Shaloum and David Graves
Quarantine Contact by Manon Pichon
Objects and Cells 1 by Caspar de Gelmini
Help Me to Crash by Malgorzata Haduch, Maria Mavirdou, Arvind Ganga, and Roman Zotter
Presidential Thoughts by Gregory Wilkins
1 Minute Sketch COVID Man by Ken Wohlgemuth
