Everything This Changes

“Everything This Changes” is programming initiated by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has shut the doors of galleries and many businesses while keeping most of us working at home. “Everything This Changes” adds to the Belkin’s online presence as a platform for works of art, research projects, podcasts, interviews, conversations and events. One of our tasks is to explore new relationships and possibilities between embodiment, especially in social space, and the disembodied lives we lead on screen. This relationship has been the subject of critique and speculation since the invention of the telephone and radio. In what ways have artists and thinkers prepared us for thinking about the present crisis? Or to put it another way, how does the present crisis change the way we see and read?