Arctic Terns: Writing and Art-Making Our Way Through the Pandemic

We call ourselves the Arctic terns after the birds that migrate between the northern and southern hemispheres. Three of us live in south-west Britain and three in south-east Australia. We tried to make sense of our lockdown lives and the ways we were imbricated in world events. We wrote and made art...

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Published in:Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies
Main Authors: Speedy, Jane, Davies, Bronwyn, Gannon, Susanne, Kirkpatrick, Davina, Laidler, Carol, Linnell, Sheridan
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2022
Subjects:
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Cultural Studies
Arctic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15327086211072265
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Summary:We call ourselves the Arctic terns after the birds that migrate between the northern and southern hemispheres. Three of us live in south-west Britain and three in south-east Australia. We tried to make sense of our lockdown lives and the ways we were imbricated in world events. We wrote and made art in response. We read our work to each other and showed each other our artworks. The material practices we developed helped make the pandemic endurable, and at times hilarious. Here we share some of our work and some of our thinking about why it matters.

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