Learning from the Pandemic: Artistic Freedom & Mobility Beyond the Covid-19 Crisis

Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the creative and cultural sectors hard; it has led to further risks and restrictions for artists, particularly for those who were already vulnerable, marginalized, or persecuted. It also hindered opportunities for cross border mobility and collaboration, thereby creating major obstacles for mobility and temporary relocation programs which aim to enable artists from restrictive political contexts to continue their practice. By learning from the experience of the Covid crisis, and particularly from restrictive contexts such as Turkey, this report explores how to support artists and maintain spaces of artistic freedom despite these circumstances. The report provides artists' perspectives and experiences related to the challenges of the pandemic, and presents the strategies they used to cope with them. As Covid exposed the interlinkage between economic, political, and psychosocial risks, the report provides a critical perspective on the concept of "risk" a

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9783948205461
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 104 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2022
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Stuttgart
• (who): ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)
• (when): 2022
• Creator: Çakır, Pelin
• Contributor: Martin Roth-Initiative ; ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)

Further information

• DOI: 10.17901/akbp1.01.2022
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-77261-6
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:47 PM CET