Simon Hanselmann

The events from 2020 onward caused artists of all kinds to question their process, their content, and their audience. The mass confinements, lockdowns, social constraints, and myriad restrictions, in addition to social unrest and economic crises, reoriented social encounters in a rudely abrupt way. Exhibitions were postponed indefinitely, and social gatherings of all kinds were prohibited. While artists were beginning to reconsider the practices within the virtual realm (and for some yet more virtually than before), writers were inexorably faced with the reconfiguration of what constituted their lifeworld and so-called real life. For the first time in human history, the