The City That Slept

Bryan Campana, Kaitlyn Chiu, Mushan Khan, Lauren Lee, Noran Omar, Danica Raz, and Qi Qi Wu

2020

The City That Slept by Campana, Chiu, Khan, Lee, Omar, Raz, and Wu uses Zoom's virtual space to showcase their disorienting experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. This video montage, created in the surreal first months of the pandemic lockdown, was inspired by the exquisite corpse, a surrealist method used to create collective and interpretative art. This work serves as a glimpse into each person's day-to-day routine through a plethora of activities as a means of coping in these times of uncertainty, where "normal" has become an elusive conviction.

Artist Bio

The City That Slept is a collaborative project created by Bryan Campana, Kaitlyn Chiu, Mushan Khan, Lauren Lee, Noran Omar, Danica Raz, and Qi Qi Wu that showcases their “disorienting” experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a video montage inspired by the exquisite corpse, a surrealist method used to create collective and interpretative art. By using this method, the artists’ personal aesthetics are able to shine as unique parts of the whole. It offers a glimpse into each artist’s day to day routine through a plethora of activities as a means of coping in times of uncertainty, where “normal” has become an illusive conviction.

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