A stranglehold what impact has it had on artists and art institutions worldwide how is johannesburg dealing with the pandemic. Will the club scene in berlin survive. 21 went to 3 major cities to find out more our 1st stop was new york. These days the not so soprano chiara trying to launch tends to look at manhattan from a distance. Like the city head job came to a standstill because of the covert 19 pandemic she cant wait to get back to broadway where a dream come true she scored several roles in the musical the girl from the North Country which premiered on march 5th before heading to close just a week later. We left in a hurry it was the middle of her stall we had a guy like a coffee cup on the table you know everything with bill there. So i got to go back there about a month ago to collect some things i still have things in the theatre some pictures and belongings and hopes that you know will be back in january oh. The critics describe their production which features bob dylans music as a stalling success. With the audience gets to see it again the themes are likely to feel more religion than ever even though the musical is set during the Great Depression of the ninetys fresh he says its just about getting through some really tough times so i think that the play will resume resonate very well after after everything weve been through. Was new yorks usually bursting cultural district has never been so quiet by the time theaters reopened in january 2021 the city will have survived 9 months without large musicals operas and plays its hard to recognize the city that never sleeps. Even though the lockdown has been lifted new york is traumatized by what it has gone through not long ago it was the u. S. Has covert 980 center and there is worrying means from the rest of the country where the number of cases continues to rise. Theres not much happening either in manhattans gallery district chelsea locals who could afford it fled from the city weeks ago the lucky ones have 2nd homes those who stayed have other worries than going to archos life also changed overnight for colorist Alexander Gray the most challenging. Of the front was just not knowing and here we are 6 months later and it feels like weve moved from fear to function. But functioning with a completely unknown side of what. But he says that the pandemic has also come with some positive. 2 being on the plane every week jumping from art fair to art for not knowing what continent i was on what are we showing up for. The art world the art market had just reached this but lost city that was not sustainable so with the with the coated crisis and everything stopping the Silver Lining has been ive had time to reflect. This have also had time to reflect time to reflect upon how theyre going to get by in the next few months maybe even use how theyre going to pay the rent since there isnt much help from the state a group of nonprofits which often support artistic projects have joined together to set up an artistic Relief Initiative theyre giving out grants of 5000. 00 to those who need it most. Creative capital is one of the organizations providing support. I dont think people realize that in this country just 2400000 artists working full time theres an additional 1200000 working part time how did contribute to the sector dont last if we have experience because of covert at just to destroy this state is over 50000000000. 00 thats what the Creative Sector contributes to the United States but when we were talking about relief efforts from the federal standpoint there are sort out included and far below that none of the artists and thats where our role became even more critical how do we understand that how do we understand the dire needs of artists and particularly artists who are so dependent on the gig economy its theyre going from gig to gig and when all of that stuff theres no shows theres no column surges theres no book tour is you know there to film festivals all of that stuff that means also that. The sad reality is that 95 percent of the countries have lost at least part of their income and 62 percent own no longer earning a living from it. And the museums are also suffering the metropolitan one of the most famous in the world is expected to lose 150000000. 00 by the end of the year that it has an endowment of 3. 5 1000000000. 00 they were always struction is as to how the funds can be spent its the donas and sponsors who decide. To make it was supposed to be celebrating its 150th anniversary this year but cova 19 shot it. Luckily its set to reopen at the end of august but its directed doubts that theyll be seeing the 7400000 annual visits his who used to come any time soon. In the aston follows the vidor film in the 1st phase of reopening and i would say thatll be the 1st year we wont have the same number of visitors at all. Im guessing 4000000 perhaps a 3rd of our visitors come from abroad. Thats linked to new york as a tourism magnet. But i dont believe were going to have a tourism revival until a vaccine is really found before and. This is new york because new york will have some tourism of course but it will be much more local. Because it will probably take 2 or 3 years until were back to where we were. On. This is perhaps a minor issue compared to what is happening in the country at large people have been protesting for weeks against Police Violence and racism and. The pandemic has served to exacerbate the social economic differences between whites and. Black americans in a very divided country africanamericans are 3 times more likely to contract the coronavirus and twice as likely to die of covert 19 than white a u. S. Citizen going to the drop. The. New yorks modern Dance Company the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has always been interested in reflecting the black American Experience in its works patients put them to covert 19 has put an end to Live Performances troops trying to out so the dancer and choreographer hope boy can create a new show for an online audience whats going on in our world right now. Is a microscope is on it and a microscope will continue to be on on leaders who lead with leaders who lead with mistrust you know this is what they call it were right now there are groups of people who like hate as a melody they like anger as a melody they like certain things that theyre hearing now as a melody and they keep saying those things over and over again. And soon i hope there will be a different melody this plate. And when our hearts break we did. The day. We did. Hannah spurgeon in june of 2020 with his camera photographer. Captures what cold with 19 is meant for the people in his township this is in march the south african government reacted to the mixer and the mic with a stringent lockdown that had dramatic consequences for much of the population. Helpful to let a nigga to lay excessive. He was the h. H. And im going to let that get will be you and i you on your hardly anyone here and so we tow has a steady job or a regular income. The walk down restrictions have since been eased despite the surge in corona infections. Which took a thief is this time you know when to use that experience i want people wounded even being heroes lead to the good the few move the people who feel real and so we had to do with living with their experiences during quick mental. When he began his project didnt have a work permit. What he could do was drive his mother to work he shot his photos through the car window so the soldiers on patrol couldnt see him. And you know its not a good look at a building and hes continued using this procedure even though social distancing isnt suited to usual ways of working or the harsh realities of life in the townships. New. York who do. These trash collectors come from the south oh but now none of them can return home to their family must go to war dont. You dont. Normally spends a lot of time with the people he photographs but due to corona thats not possible. To begin to know notable for a few moments of it doesnt it has a lot to do. With will also as it would you. Need is a successful photographer but he still firmly rooted in his township the people here and no one trusts him. I would have thought of this project exactly. Have been looked at when you. Was more interested in the convolution and one of the common problem that really is a lot of people dont have. Some of them would ask you to buy them a lot of weight and that made me too pushy my role as a photographer. And hence i decided to do one on one needs to be sure and with money from this leads to food to buy food for the people not have worked with and other people i knew from this coming to. Me is paying a visit to his mother his siblings and their families live here too in just 2 rooms. Maintaining a safe distance or quarantining is impossible and Housing Estates like this which date from the apartheid era. Could be good to realize that. We still living and you know the lot of problems that were created by a party and they havent changed even to the tune 5 years later they even change their making preparations for the Online Charity auction you want to get to and also this one captures like their marriage of the last day or 2 are called it is and it reflects the press of nicer kind of a what people are feeling almost this is a nice crowd. Meanies photo series the every day waiting is being shown at the London Branch of the goodman gallery. Full of people you know we contributed to his in who i am today and developed as you start to piece in photography so much i do photography has always been helping the community that i come from and vis give me that which you need to to come back and to get good. Weve already used up our savings and i cant go back home. Other family members couldnt come to attend the funeral which is unusual in our culture. Jabulani de la meany is represented by the renowned goodman gallery. But even south africas normally booming art scene has been impacted by the corona crisis no art fairs are being held no exhibitions either so there are no visitors even producing art is harder. It has affected movement it has affected how much is create because some artists. Cannot have access to the studios nothing is coming inside the country so getting material its difficult so showing solidarity is vital galleries are supporting their artists who are in turn donating works to benefit auctions the art scene is helping itself government you have to wait for police and in its times you have to move in order to make sure that outside african mistress of violence. Many dreamed of flying to london for the opening of his show there. Instead hes driving to an ngo and so we tow to distribute food to needy children. Schools here were closed for almost 3 months so children didnt receive any school meals. Now some pupils have returned to school. For many youngsters whose parents now have no work this is often their only meal of the day. I dont know if the government will come so what happened from some people that youre going to fool. I didnt see that women out of places in cuba a lot of them were. Given to received any food parcels. So i mean this is this is not just a fear that we need to not wait for government we need to initiate me to take initiative and give big. Trouble money donated his time long before the pandemic since 2016 hes been giving photography classes to young people as part of a project to combat high youth unemployment tending causing church whio is one of his students now he too hopes to capture the effect of covert 19 on his environment attending causes family runs a tavern due to south africas alcohol ban it must stay shut yet people still need somewhere to talk for instance about violence against women which has increased during the lockdown here only if could could we could. Be told it is also going to be so very emotional exchangers you know some of the kids who didnt also experienced. South africa has more covert cases than any other african country people here live in fear of contracting corona virus and of the catastrophic economic aftermath the photo project helps everyone involved to express these feelings. So. Is that isolation. I mean from the get. Focus on the path towards. Them not being here. Produce to encourage you know because of the good their own Life Experiences that shapes obviously things so my role is just to create that profile. Via downtown yohannes bird he makes the 20 kilometer trip back to so vito. Back to where his career began as a street for. Referred to documented important events on his neighbors behalf. For me. As a vehicle of change it can influence change we use photography as a starting point to look at those photographs and we start from living one to truth problems sanitation schools housing just to mention a few we have a lot of problems believe that we need to start picking up on the cell phone job lonnie de la mimi views his involvement as open to south africas philosophy of showing humanity towards others and one of the ways to show just giving back to community that youre working with i mean the 1st one is to collaborate and also to give in terms of. Getting back to prince because if im from the people that are working with me they need to be collectors of the work that weve created thats not just like you know there were 3 of us when i guess a lot doesnt have all of us as i look at how it was as i call i get all of one when i got a call on her. Summer in berlin co that 19 put the brakes on this city now cultural life is gradually steering again but under strict regulations in movie theaters. And museums. The pandemic has also prompted germanys principal cultural institutions to try new paths depression Cultural Heritage foundation has for the very 1st time open the rooftops of the boat and museum and if they do expand at church for a project together with parlance clubs. D. J. s play their sets against a backdrop of historical treasures. Event organizer and co initiator mightiest 2nd. Hopes the concept will spawn a series of videos for digital platforms. Definitive this is absolutely an attempt to launch something new in the midst of the corona walked down at present the agency is making a 0 revenues but still has Monthly Expenses so of course we hope these productions will eventually bring something in so we can make ends meet with your. Berlins nightlife has been especially hard hit except for open air events pubs and bars are allowed to reopen now but the clubs have been under lockdown since mid march no concerts no dancing no all night partying one of them is the good late in the government has responded to these financial hardships with another perspective aid package worth millions of euros but theres a critical issue here are clubs just intertainment venues or also cultural ones the state aid depends on the answer. And were not making any money on our own or not much anyway and we have to stay closed for quite a long time. Thats the Economic Disaster my methods of you have to think with now i do get the impression that the state has realized that cultural venues are doing really really badly when its from the vehicle and personally i dont see much difference between an opera house on the club and they just deal with different styles of music the big difference between the venues is that we normally finance Everything Else selves. Until recently techno without the club would have been unthinkable a year ago at age 18 was making a name for himself as a promising newcomer on the techno scene he was on the verge of an International Breakthrough now he said work on new musical concepts meant more for listening than dancing. Tricks. If i were to arrange a track for a club now it would have a long intro and a long outro so it would be easy for the d. J. To mix. In on the tracks ive been producing these days are generally a lot shorter. But you have to try to create music that will hold onto its value even after this all blows over. For lynne without its clubs would just not be the same back when distance had a very different meaning luka added put out his 1st track digital just and now hes dealing with the dilemma of the music scene that no longer happens live but only through digital platforms. And appearance under corona crisis conditions with over 35000000 views united we stream is currently one of the internets biggest streaming platforms. No pay no audience just cameras. This tongue some things we keep a distance from things that used to be totally normal for us that even made up our lives so thats kind of for the fact that no festivals or clubs are happening this year means that the only medium a performer can use to gain recognition is a digital one and. Of course i can play some live stream gig but so can 10000 others and. Even so for now streams are helping performers establish a presence and keeping the clubs afloat. Now that crowdfunding the united we stream project is networked the world over from detroit to singapore over 1500 performances have been staged in 4 months and a good half 1000000 euros in donations collected in berlin alone its an initiative of Club Commission belin. Yeah i think the question of how much clubs are in danger right now is also a question of how long theyre going to be shut down i think right now we are monitoring this very well but you know theres a big long way to go to a dark downstairs Basement Club with where people are packed we are aware of it but we also have to. Remember everybody that we have probably the toughest time. But the clubs will hardly be able to survive long term in private. And they wont be able to reopen safely until the pandemic has passed. Until the end is working under the motto to think of leaving holding on thats the crowdfunding platform the club uses for streaming twice a week around 100 euros is donated her thats not enough run Congress Something on them a sure you can pull quite a few things off just with technology recordings of concerts and so on. But if youre a Club Operation through and through it just doesnt work without the people who. Run this club because we love the music and we love to see how people react he meant when youve got people in the club and they start screaming because they love the music and the ambiance we still get goosebumps and weve been doing this well over 20 years now. Clubs have made up an essential part of its cultural life since the 1990 s. And now their survival is at stake. 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