Matt | Deidre | Charley | Andrea & Sarah
March 23 | Matt Clegg
Atlanta
This is a strange time but a good one for reflection. Amazing potential for redefining how a day can be spent. I was talking to a friend in Mexico about my dark-clouded worries of a future with no work- “that sounds great!” he said and I’ve been thinking of that since. Here’s a photo of a raised bed in my backyard reminding everyone that you can grow food if you have ~4x8 feet in physical space.
March 23 | Deidre Huckabay
Chicago
If I am being honest, this week has been bad. I am very lucky in that I still have work—my job had already been a work-from-home freelance thing, and my clients still need my services. I love solitude and my everyday life already looks a lot like quarantine. But I also tend to spiral into a drunk, TV-watching puddle from time to time and that has definitely been my chosen method of coping this week. I'll get bored doing that soon enough.
Deidre Huckabay is a musician and an artist living in Chicago. Her projects include Mocrep, Parlour Tapes+, and some other things.
March 23 | Charley Guptill
Chicago
I've been filling my time either doing lots of emailing / letter writing / Zoom calling with Black & Pink (a queer prison abolition org) as we scramble to continue our existing work and then respond & contribute to all that's happening around decarceration and the virus OR drinking so many beers while playing games on the PS2 I forgot was hiding under my bed. No day job means I actually get space to do work that engages me, and no social calendar means age regression (via video games). Except I haven't had to give up social media to enjoy this new mental and emotional space for myself (which is what was going on this time last year when I gave up social media for lent).
Charley is an artist in Chicago who makes drawings, clothes, and the occasional performance.
See Charley on Instagram @charfee, where she/he makes collages.
March 23 | Andrea Ang and Sarah McEneaney (Square One Collective)
New York
I keep thinking about slowness throughout all of this. I'm trying to take time to reflect on things but it's difficult. Before all this happened I was working at an insane rate- 4 jobs on top of my own art practice. That's all ground to a halt now and I've come to the realization that keeping busy was a coping mechanism for me. If I never slowed down I would never have to process my emotions/experience/etc.
But here I am, fully stopped, staring at myself. Dealing with extreme global catastrophe on top of everything else.
So who better to turn to for inspiration in this stopped time than John Cage?
Andrea and I spent some time studying his work while we trained with SITI and I keep coming back to it. He's someone to emulate now. Stillness goals, if you will.
So we jumped on skype and looked at the pieces sent to us and made a list of what stuck out. From that list we made a series of instructions for a "play" to be performed in isolation, in the comfort of your own home. It's silly and we wrote it together in about 15 minutes but it is a way to reflect and be with yourself and even kill some time when the days feel so long. - Sarah McEneaney
Square One Collective is Andrea Ang and Sarah McEneaney (among others.) An open collective of artists form across the globe, we aim to deconstruct traditional hierarchies in theatermaking and create genre-bending works that respond to today's globalized world. Our latest piece, No Place, recently premiered at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival in January. We hope to stage it in New York eventually.
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