Urban Miscellanea
2020-2022, 2025
Urban Miscellanea is an experimental multimedia anthology that celebrates creativity situated within the urban.
2020/21: States of Apprehension
2021/22: Urban emergency / urban rhythms
2025: Archiving
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Collective Sonder2020/21
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Collective Sonder is a group of four artists based in Berlin, London, and Zhuhai working
together, exclusively through virtual platforms, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Instagram: @collective_sonder
Issuu: www.issuu.com/collective_sonder
The pandemic has inherently transformed the way we imagine and navigate our streets from lockdowns to social distancing and in creating these compositions, we have been able to depict the experiences of our daily lives within the emergency of the pandemic.
We have found it fascinating to recognise the altered realities we experience on the same day, and how the pandemic tangibly manifests within each city. The inability to meet due to COVID has left us questioning how to build community and an understanding of each other’s lives through alternative means, despite the physical distance.
This project not only captures our exploration of daily life within this new paradigm, but the organic process of how simple acts such as walking down our street may have differed from before. It has also allowed us to examine the everyday as an inspiration for creative expression, while experimenting with the definitions of “artist” and “art.”
By taking these incredibly familiar scenes of each other’s daily life, and transforming and blending them together, we interrogate the hybrid realities we have learned to live in. A life lived both hyper locally and unbounded by geography, one where some are restricted from travelling outside of their local neighbourhood, while also peering into dozens of other cities daily through social media and video calls. In this surreal world, we took it upon ourselves to find familiarity within this strange new paradigm some of us had entered, and to discover new ways to feel close to one another as we worked with each other’s spaces.