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artists around the world responded to the pandemic in germany. ready the theater festival explore ways out at the crisis. taking a humorous look at the general sense of disorientation. but 1st we go to gonna, why one painter is portraying the way many families have stuck together. d, w reporter isaac galaxy. as the story from the capital, a cra, cornelius honor has been painting for the past 8 years. he started off with just random objects and people. but 2 years ago, something changed. he got married during the pandemic. since then, he's focused on themes related to families. it was his way of highlighting the effect of the pandemic on people drilled upon me those when i realized that upon normally brought a lot of families together. so i need to work on

a family works. so does when i decided to get a lot of ideas and also during my, my res to it was a good nicholas. i to my center part of my family. so this all inspired me to, to really be waking on family oh teams. his latest works, patrice families who gather to spend quality time together during the various lock downs, helping each other deal with the impact of the pandemic cove. it 19 brought many restrictions, and many families lost love, ones, thousands of gin eons lost their jobs as well. and or doesn't want to remain people constantly of the pain they suffered, but he does hope that his works will help them reflect on what they've been through

. but oh, i will say i would like to do the viewer freeze please. in the on mine to, to really to my wife's does what does what my mean 4 goals because everybody has a family. so i want to view or to really feel free and relate to my wake. ah, to get doug. this kind of attachment through my way, emmanuel, or say, boy tang is receiving art lessons from nor he struggled with drugs and depression during the pandemic. and taking up painting is proving very therapeutic for him. what spy by the family seems adopted by honor. he decided to please his portrait of a girl who struggled with mental health during the walk down in the capital a crowd. she ended up taking her own life. her story is

a reflection of his own struggles. and i do drugs and i'm, i'm fighting to to, to stop it. but it is not easy in all imagine those talk people on the street margin to was children on the street who are lonely, emotionally, south of a crowd. we meet newly on a bus. he lost a friend to cove it. he also lost his teaching job and for months couldn't see his family. it was a very difficult time, but honours artworks drew his attention to another aspect of the pandemic. one of the things i think we should do there is a need route to thank of it for the fact that it brought relatives together because everybody's really wacky and everybody's went out doing the activities. but that moment that we had to be in there for 3 weeks. i think it's a moment that many people would appreciate in his did you cornelius are

norris helping a number of other painters for him? art is a way to remind people of cupid 19 and how it changed lives. now to taiwan, where video artist jen mo chang, has had his life turned upside down by the pandemic. his late his work still with the isolation and confinement that he experienced during coin, teen a traumatic experience that has changed him setting up an art exhibition in the midst of the largest local outbreak. 10 ma chung found at the 1st company in taiwan that specializes in the technical planning of art events. there are any 3 days left before the show and he stressed out. and if anyone on the side gets cove, it, they will have to stop working with truth, very chaotic, which i think there was a very strong feeling of uncertainty. you can't foresee what's going to happen.

parts of everything is just so unpredictable if you're constantly anxious and thinking about planning b. yes. so you 10 is also an artist himself. he's been working in the industry for 20 years. he says the pandemic has changed the altima not with more and more exhibitions going virtual, but he still thinks live shows are irreplaceable. onto this on the whole point of an art exhibition is to come and see the at your work or object. the feeling is very direct, okay? but when everything becomes a c, c, d, inside a screen, the color mix of red, blue and green fire, it becomes very distant after the events tremble and no transition sounds. and who has the time to watch all the online shows sources and it's actually a time drain, go, and constantly distracts you up with one of our friends on through the cove. it has traumatized him personally. he went through a 14 day quarantine when the pandemic 1st broke out in early 2020. it was just like

solitary confinement and he had a mental breakdown. after his release he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder gern, danziger than new continent. i was confined alone were constantly forced to confront my inner self children and the things i had in my heart or should we don't know if it amplified the worst part of me without decisions in all though they only restrict you physically on the. it does have a mental impact in wyoming, so he captures the sense of detachment in his latest work, the piece questions, the authorities expansion of power in times of cov, it. it also explores the dynamics of control and breaking free from control. when are you above that night? we've always lived in a world of 1984 of them says into the pandemic. only made it more obvious thing. but it's not just a virus with that. it's biological warfare on yours, perhaps started from an accident where it was premeditated. we don't know. but it

has developed into a new mechanism of control. it is by nature, a war happens. 10000 chan says the pandemic reminds him of the impermanence of life . he has re prioritized his goals, hoping to spend less time on exhibition planning and more time on art buildings and voicemail was in my, my only live one lessons. and so i want to focus more on myself and reconnect with my feelings. i'll bow the coven experience as deep in my sense of detachment, or it's a unique part of myself, of our dual i so. so how can i make it sharper as well? you her fall? that's what i'll have to do more to going to enjoy. to tell you what else jen mar. chung says that the pandemic broke him into pieces, but it's also wake up call to look into his in it world. is

there a way that we could prepare more effectively? the feature pandemic dw science correspondent derek williams keeps you up to date on the latest research. this week he answers the question, could ultra violet light technology could control future pandemic o. o. true violet radiation in a specific part of the spectrum known as u. v. c. has long been used. the disinfect places like laboratories or, or operating rooms in hospitals, and especially early in the pandemic. sales of commercial u. v. c. products. adapting the technology for use in the home like like boxes for disinfecting phones or, or keys. they went through the roof. the problem is that using germ aside all u, v c and public spaces, to kill off pathogens floating around in the air. that could also potentially pose

a health threat because at a lot of wavelengths you vc radiation doesn't just kill microbes, and it can also harm your skin and your eyes. so large scale use of any technology would have to find a kind of sweet spot employing only very specific wavelengths that are harmless, the human cells, but deadly to pathogens. a recent study carried out by researchers from the u. s. and the u. k. looked at that sweet spot and their results were quite encouraging from a ceiling in a large test room. they hung 5 lamps radiating light at what are called for you, the c wavelengths which other studies have shown don't cause any damage to us. and then they started pumping an aerosol, ised microbes to mimic an infectious person. it's really hard to do these kinds of

experiments by the way. and this was the 1st time that one like this had been performed in a way that really came close to real life conditions. anyhow, the upshot is that when all of the lamps were on the system killed over 98 percent of the airborne microbes within just 5 minutes. that's a really remarkable finding. but of course, it's still a long way away from a world where germs idle u. v. c lamps are used and a wide spread way to control air borne pathogens and endorse faces. um, there are plenty of issues left to be worked out, including proving that long term exposure to far u. v. c. really is as harmless to humans as it appears, but if the method does pan out, it has several major advantages. the biggest is that it would likely be effective

against not just ours covey too, but also against a wide range of other pathogens, like influenza viruses and tuberculosis and, and it would probably continue to kill all of those pathogens, no matter how they mutated. so it could help with the issue of, of drug resistance. um, the experts that i read are hopeful that the technology will become available sooner rather than later, especially for large indoor venues that can act as, as epa centers for super spreader events, nash o, a cat, that hunches its back and his is. that's roughly the meaning of god and we find in spanish it's the name of a rap band in chile, it's raising the alarm on via since against women,

which is worsened in the panoramic. dw sophia, on bug reports. i my soccer much hyster or the mac massacre is the name of this song by gotta angry, far the feminist rap connected from chile. the song was born during the pandemic a time when violence against women increased world wide. the 4 women who hailed from santiago, but i so didn't just perform music, they also gave out women's hygiene products during the pandemic. and all the same quote that we decided to meet up and talk about what was happening about osama reflection unless we talked about the aid packages that the government was handing out to cover basic needs including food and hygiene articles. but no one talked

about the need for menstrual hygiene products for the f, one economist like i masa grandma chester also talks about the many women who've been murdered in chile and was having nobody said a lot of customers during the pandemic. there were lots of cases of fem aside and women disappearing yona. it was shocking to realize that the danger was not only out on the straight who had believed about in our in harms then. and it said you hadn't that guy. we often experienced repression, that harm can be v 20. so that's why this song expresses so much pain that it will have as shown to them in them. and there are no dosa before women don't just produce music. they also give workshops the 1st song that they performed in the santiago free radio station, plaza, digney dud, came in to being during a workshop at a prison for young offenders. ah,

let me just see. okay, a get caught up with you on our collective doesn't just make music, although that's what we focused on most of late. and with that we have several different gigs them in the educational side as well. pretty so right courses and breathe. i'll wrap workshops at least then forming the form and the music project. all the songs and lyrics are developed during the workshops. of course, is there a break? they've got the the women are now looking to record their 1st album. it's an e p with 6 tracks all written in the last few years and focusing on violence against women fem aside and abortion rights. the next

available, you include s b idea just developed out of the social context in which we live. he said, we wanted to speak out. we've always felt drawn to music because we're all since the end result with songs that will now be on our pay. nothing. take us. yes. it's a lack of it. i want to go from one with a legal i, with the women say they'll continue to wrap on the streets, getting their message out loud and clear. now here in germany theaters and finally back up and running a drama festival in the city who has been exploring the sense of disorientation felt by in the antenna taking

a light haunted approach. these of these stephanie tolben went along oh the characters in the plea after all springfield by belgian artist meat develop. try their best to come together over and over again. but their inability and dysfunctionality create more and more chaos and havoc and their interactions with each other. they just can't seem to get together. oh, the belgian slapstick mix of body and object theater featured at this year's fee, dana puppet theater festival in germany.

these are, these are action that sterile the time, which is also very funny. how much that reflects what life is lacking now. well, to if we all keep trying, we mean the same thing, but when not compatible 7 is comp and so our communication doesn't work in a co, monica soon. disruptions and communication and the growing divisions in our societies unleashed by the pandemic, where the dominating themes of the festival program. this year's motto was questioning the world the hunger. we did the civically search for productions that deal with this same of the low dimensional ponder entities as t my that examine how we deal with the truth with fast how we relate to confusing my medicine that explore these issues on stage. this comes out very clearly in a german production called shell game. last and paranoia land is by the boom performance

collective anika pok. the audience takes an active part in the piece. the play, the role of space tourist who crash landed on an alien planet and have to reorient themselves from scratch using the contradictory information with which they're confronted. at the beginning, every one is given a rule card that sets out what attitude they are to take. oh, may come with me, always come with me and says if we go i will all die. do that and from out surrounding the information that they gather during the play, the role cards and the conversation that they have with the performers leads them to decide for themselves. what has happened here and who is behind all of the clang bustles here, past every member of the audience has to decide. who do i try to tower it?

that's a very important decision making. question. the who do i trust? which theory about what is behind all of this? do i actually subscribe to excuse? it was anguish, and in the former bottom steelworks, which now serves as a venue productions explore the massive impact of the pandemic, had on working conditions and performance options. the artists of punch, ocoee tried out new models of collaboration. here at the festival they produced a larger than life monster balloon that was then made ready for its 1st flight out . after more than 2 years of the pandemic, things are still far from normal. for there was working in arts and culture when there are insane levels of instability right now. oh, it affects me to as of my math is too much on all for now because artists have had

true years of producing things. good is gary language, but maybe it's also an opportunity. listen because something is changing. the wellness off. people have been producing things without the pressure of an upcoming premier or the need to achieve a result from quimby. until so you're getting hoshal results being shown, because again, there is a feeling of transformation underway. i'm own poor. what hasn't changed? is that the artist continue to hold up a mirror to their audience. now finally, to blend. it's arlene, where a filmmaker acted you have made a comedy about their life together as a young couple in quarantine. a lot can go wrong when 2 people a confined to a small space. actress konstanz our faith

mun and filmmaker, augustine mandela, how soon had just decided to move in together. when argentina went into lockdown, that was march 2020. the restrictions and burners are, is lost at 6 months. being confined to such a small space was a challenge until the couple started filming their daily life together. that had been the remarkable good. suddenly we couldn't work any more, and found ourselves locked up together in the apartment. i wasn't at all home goes . luckily, we brought a camera, people to sort of valuable jona, i'm a camera man league a model. so he brought a camera to have it in case something happened that was worth filming. that even though they said that i thought everything to be f one at 1st it was very difficult for me. after a while we started filming documentary stuff. but then we made the decision to start testing a script and putting fiction into it. then bethesda, and once we started filming nash young and making a felon wish, jacqueline the quarantine completely changed for us because we were busy all the

time. was it up a with him, a dollar in pickle, both on because a, we started trying things out with the camera and look intending to make a short film, heretical. we focused on some of the issues that had dominated our life together. the fact that constance came to my apartment skate the fact that we weren't such consolidated couple. and so the pandemic became about filming inside the apartment and gone soleah lab anemia for us. that was the pandemic feel modern, that i live alone. it's awful ever me. oh, yeah, but i am, was almost the end result was a full length committee with a title, clement tina. it premiered at this year's born as our as international independent film festival. the event was staged with all the splendor of pre pandemic times. so you know, bertha oil with her daughter drove in the door though metering did not have wilson in 2020. we couldn't hold the festival and a pretty good after we're in 2021. we did a simplified version where all the films are just once or twice or some in person

and some in theaters that had just open to stanley. we had screenings outdoors, and in cultural centers with you, i. now finally, we're back to a face to face as to one, almost the same as before. we, i, and i mean this is where foreign guests will once again present interaction between the artists and the public was also back along with the master classes. and the, when it was clement, the lemon, tina young, argentina's world, premier consanzo feldman and augustine, mandela her to the jury, highlighted the movie, simplicity, freshness and subtle humor, in portraying everyday life. with you, i learned that there's been such an atmosphere of joy and happiness at the festival here a real party going up either on the way, really happy and so excited clementine started off. it's a very small project. it was just going to be a harm made short film. but little by little, the project grew and ended up as a feature length film. and here we are. we can't quite believe it. full movie

fans, the festival was of real highlight after 2 years of mainly online screenings and in see movies have to be at the movie theater. no, not at home or online online. i, you know, well, the return to the cinema is a bit it because a fear, the virus on the and from that mother really, i love it. i love the to feel like his the also delighted to have a film premier at the cinema elite that a know at 1st we will planning a series of short films, ethernet, video. and when we prem yet, apple 1st installment it felt really empty it we were just to learn that in like janice targeting and what she had. i'm a little strangely, even up on that he down to the oregon. but out, if that ain't when i compare that with her mirror with the one the other day in the giant room and with a big screen, incredible sound and everything that happened later on,

it's just amazing. also if with a lower and the truth is you have to which appearance the ugliness of the other until once again appreciate how nice it is to be in a movie theater. it up at a theater locust than it is of the couple say it's the audience that makes the film complete. they're convinced of that now more than ever ah, we're a playful species. and a social one to people in many parts of the world are enjoying being able to meet up again socially. that's all for this week. next time we'll have more on the latest corona virus research. with

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