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a stranglehold what impact has it had on artists and art institutions worldwide how is johannesburg dealing with a pandemic. will the club scene in berlin survive. 2123 major cities to find out more our 1st stop was new york. these days the met so soprano chiara trying to launch tends to look at manhattan from a distance. be like the city had job came to a standstill because of the covert 19 pandemic she can't wait to get back to broadway where a dream come true she scored several roles in the musical the go from the north country which premiered on march 5th before having to close just a week later. we left in

a hurry it was the middle over her soul we had to think up a copy cup on the table you know everything with still 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 was. the critics describe their production which features bob dylan's music as a stalling success. when the audience gets to see it again this seems unlikely to feel more relevant than ever even though the musical is set during the great depression of the 930 s. it's just about getting through some really tough times so i think that the play will resume resonate very well after after everything we've been through was new york's usually bustling cultural district has never been so quiet by the time theaters reopen in january 2021 the city will have survived 9 months

without large musicals operas and plays it's 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 us is covert 980 center and there is worrying news from the rest of the country with a number of cases continues to rise. there's not much happening either in manhattan's 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 our. life also changed overnight for colorist alexander gray the most challenging. of the front end was just not knowing and here we are 6 months later and it feels like we've moved from fear to function.

but functioning with a completely unknown side of what's right. but he says that the pandemic has also come with some positives being on the plane every week jumping from arthur to arthur not knowing what continent i was on what are we showing up for. the art world with 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 i've had time to reflect. this have also had time to reflect time to reflect upon how they're going to get by in the next few months maybe even years how they're going to pay the rent since there isn't much help from the state a group of nonprofits which often support artistic projects have joined together to set up an artistic relief initiative they're giving out grants of $5000.00 to those

who need it most. creative capital is one of the organizations providing support. i don't think people realize that in this country just 2400000 artists working full time there's an additional 1200000 working part time how did contribute to the sector to last if we have experience because of covert at at this to destroy this state is over $50000000000.00 that's 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 that's where our role became even more critical how do we understand at how do we understand the dire needs of artists and particularly artists were so dependent on the gig economy it's they're going from gig to gig and when all of that stuff there's no shows there's no concerts there's no book tour is you know there to film festivals all of that stuff that means all.

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 strictures as to how the funds can be spent it's the don't is and sponsors who decide. to make it was supposed to be celebrating its 150th anniversary this year but cova 19. luckily it's set to reopen at the end of august but it's directed doubts that they'll be seeing the 7400000 annual visits his who used to come any time soon. in the past and

follows a veto flow in the 1st phase of reopening and i would say that'll be the 1st year we won't have the same number of visitors at all only a few i'm guessing 4000000 perhaps. a 3rd of our visitors come from abroad with me that's linked to new york as a tourism magnet. but i don't believe we're going to have a tourism revival until a vaccine is really found before and. this is new york 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 we're back to where we were. on. this is perhaps a mining issue compared to what is happening in the country at large people have been protesting for weeks against police violence and racism in. the pandemic has served to exacerbate the social economic differences between one. black americans

in a very divided country african-americans 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 drop. the. new york's modern dance company the alvin ailey american dance theater has always been interested in reflecting the black american experience and its works in patients for them to covert 19 has put an end to live performances creeps in trying to so that dancer and choreographer hope boy can created a new show for an online audience what's going on in our world right now. is a microscope is on it and a microscope will will continue to be on on leaders who leave with leaders who lead with mistrust you know this is what they call it we're right now there are groups

of people who like hate as a melody they like anger is a melody they like certain things that they're hearing now as to 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. we james. dean. smith. yohannes bergen in june of 2020 with his camera photographer. captures what coal with 1000 is meant for the people in his township this is in march the south african government reacted to the looming 2nd demick with a stringent lockdown that had dramatic consequences for much of the population.

and to the full well what in the given legs us it. was. 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 few flares this time and i want to freeze that experience i want people even being here is a little too good to feel you move the people who feel real and so we had to do with living their experiences during the course of $98.00. when he began his project. didn't 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 couldn't see him. and you know it's not a good look at a building and he's continued using this procedure even though social distancing

isn't suited to usual ways of working or the harsh realities of life and the townships of the new. yorker who do. these trash collectors come from the south but now none of them can return home to their family must go to war don't. you don't. normally spends a lot of time with the people he photographs but due to corona that's not possible . to go to gary no no go for example doesn't it has a lot to do. with will also is it wouldn't you i. mean he is a successful photographer but he's still firmly rooted and his township the people here know and trust him. i would have thought of this project exactly when. you. have more interested in looking at his issues and one of the.

really a lot of people going to school and some of them with all school to buy them a lot of. in-depth made me too pushy about all this awful talk before. and so i decided to do an unknown exhibition and with money from the sleeves only if i had to buy food for people not have worked with other people who are needy from this coming to juggle loni 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 in housing estates like this which date from the apartheid era. you get to realize that. we still living and you know the lot of programs that we were created but they

haven't changed even 2 days to 5 years later they've been changed they're making preparations for the online charity auction you want so i'm used to it and also this one captures like that of millions of the last day or 2 i called it is and it reflects depressive and i so kind of of what people are feeling almost this is an astro. mini's 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 he stepped me to pieces. so much i do photography has always been helping the community that i come from and vis gave me that which you need to come back into q. ringback we've already used up our savings and i can't go back home. to.

other family members couldn't 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 africa's normally booming arts 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 at. is affected how much is create because some artists. cannot have access to the studios nothing is coming inside the country so getting material it's 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 it's times you have to move in order to make sure that outside african in is to survive . many dreamed of flying to london for the opening of his show there. instead he's driving to an ngo and so we told to distribute food to needy children. schools here were closed for almost 3 months so children didn't 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 don't know if the government will come so what happened to promise them people that you would deliver food here in peter edelman out of places in peter

a lot of them. we haven't received any food parcels yet. and so i mean this is this is not is the fear that we need to not wait for government we need to me show it to me to take initiative and give big. trouble money donated his time long before the pandemic since 2016 he's been giving photography classes to young people as part of a project to combat high youth unemployment tending causing shots y.-o. 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 africa's 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 if only if could could we could. determine is also kind of the face of emotional exchanges you know some of the code here to

a village but also things. 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 i think it is isolation. i mean from the get go. to really. focus on the path towards. them not being here. produce to encourage you know because a view of god their own life experiences that shapes only see things so my role is just to create that prayer for. downtown yohannes bird he makes the 20 kilometer trip back to so leto. back to where his career began as a street photographer who documented important events on his neighbor's behalf.

for me in photography this if you like you know of change it can influence change you use photography as a starting point to look at those photographs and we start from living 12 through its problems so in a tissue schools housing just to mention a few we have a lot of problems i don't believe that we need to start looking up on some. meanie views his involvement as a boon to south africa's philosophy of showing humanity towards others but one of the ways the sure just giving back to the community that you working with them in the 1st one is to cooperate and also to give back in terms of. giving back the prince. of course affecting the people that need to be collected for the work that we've created is not restored you know there were. one of those noble of us to say look at where there's a color you can get all. the knowledge of. summer

in berlin cove in 1000 put the brakes on this city now cultural life is gradually steering again but under strict hygiene regulations in movie theaters. and museums . the pandemic has also prompted germany's 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 they're free to expand our church for a project together with berlin's club. d.j.'s play their sets against a backdrop of historical treasures. event organizer and co initiator mightiest seka

hopes the concept will spawn a series of videos for digital platforms. devastation if all 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. berlin's 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 guillotine the government has responded to these financial high. ships with another perspective aid package worth millions of euros but there's a critical issue here are clubs just entertainment venues or also cultural ones the state aid depends on the answer. and we're not making any money on our own or not

much anyway and we have to stay closed for quite a long time and. that's the economic disaster about my methods of the 3 point now i do get the impression that the state has realized that cultural venues are doing really really badly when it's from the movies and i'm personally i don't 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. for tracks

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 i've 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. carlin without its clubs would just not be the same back when distance had a very different meaning look at put out his 1st track digital distance now he's dealing with the dilemma of the music scene that no longer happens life but only through digital platforms. and appearance under corona crisis conditions with over 35. a 1000000 views united we stream currently one of the internet's biggest streaming platforms. no pay no audience just cameras. so we keep

a distance from things that used to be totally normal for us even made up our lives so that's kind of 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 streamed but so can 10000 others. even so for now streams are helping performers establish a presence and keeping the clubs afloat. now the crowdfunding 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 it's an initiative of club commission berlin. yeah i think the question

of how much clubs are in danger right now is also a question of how long they're going to be shut down i think right now we are monitoring this very well but you know. the 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 on state aid and private donations and they won't be able to reopen safely until the pandemic. until then it is working under the motto to think of leaving holding on that's the crowdfunding platform the club uses for streaming twice a week around $100.00 euros is donated per evening that's not enough. of something

unfamiliar sure you can pull quite a few things off just with technology recordings of concerts and so on. but if you're a club operation through and through it just doesn't work without the people being killed by everything we run this club because we love the music and we love to see how people react mean he meant when you've got people in the club and they start screaming because they love the music and the ambiance we still get goosebumps and we've been doing this well over 20 years now and the whole. bird lands clubs have made up an essential part of its cultural life since the 1990 s. and now their survival is at stake. around us there's a lot of despair that's true but we're event managers who are the ones who keep the creativity flowing and assess that he is often the mother of invention of course we won't know till much later if what we come up with now is just as good or as profitable but it will be something new for north and stay in. for now hopes are

for a long warm summer allowing for lots of the events in the open air. dream cities 3 stories life in times of corona that was arch 21 for this week see you soon. i'm going. to miss me

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