Last December, culture360 has launched a new series of articles on
how the arts are adapting to the "New Normal". One year into the global pandemic, this series will present
experiences and stories of resilience, adaptation, and success from the arts sector to the Covid-19 pandemic, with particular focus on differently disabled artists and arts organisations, artists residencies and arts funding.
This article by Veerangana Solanki looks at various art funding models that emerged in three South Asian ASEM countries – Bangladesh, India, Pakistan – to support artists and art practices during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The year 2020 has probably been the strangest year that the world’s current generation has lived through collectively. Care has manifested itself in various forms, with health workers at the forefront and support systems looking at the immediacy of requirements in their own regions. Almost every individual and sector, including the arts has dealt with various forms of setbacks. Artists have struggled to find platforms to showcase their work, both in terms of accessibility and in translating mediums to an online format. Art spaces and cultural organisations have had to constantly rethink and reinvent exhibition formats in the online as well as the physical space with audience restrictions.