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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Thomas Tzortzi2020/21
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It is a whimsical plan for a Coronavirus museum which showcases exhibits that respond to the UK’s national response at the time – trying to find a break from the situation through humour. It was published in March 2020, which seems a very different pandemic to the one we see today. In that way the project itself acts as a time-capsule for the events of the early stages of the pandemic in the UK – panic buying in supermarkets, trying to accept the pandemic as ‘real’, stress eating and many other coping mechanisms.
It tries to capture the day-to-day occurrences and coping mechanisms of people during a global emergency, rather than the bigger events of the time. This seemed a time when the majority of people were experiencing the pandemic in similar ways and a more ‘in it together’ approach compared to the emergency today.
If the museum were to be redesigned today it would tell a different story and include a more diverse body of exhibits. But perhaps its simplistic to look into the past, one that seems so long ago now, is a stark way to reflect on how the world, and the pandemic itself, has changed.