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Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Travelogue 03]
Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Travelogue 03]

Thursday 22nd October

Today I am meeting Viennese artists Christiana Spatt and Maria Hanl at the Torhaus. Maria’s work is a film piece and has already been installed, Christiane is a painter and photographer and her work is the final piece in the Corona jigsaw.

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Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Adekola]
Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Adekola]

Yesterday in a special edition of the Lockdown Journal, we updated you on the status of the ‘Compressed Time Frames’ exhibition by ArtCouple, and today I bring you some material by Abdullah Adekola, poet and founder of the Black led and Leeds based poetry collective ‘Say It. With Your Chest’. We hope to be working with Adekola in the very near future, watch this space.

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Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Travelogue 02]
Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Travelogue 02]

The city streets do not seem to be very busy with cars. There is a hire system for electric scooters, they are everywhere and people just leave them parked at the edge of the pavement. Bikes are also popular. Dortmund feels like a city with an environmental conscience.

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Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Travelogue 01]
Lockdown Journal: Dortmund Edition [Travelogue 01]

Today, I depart for the Industrial Rhineland of Westphalia, specifically the city of Dortmund for an exhibition entitled ‘Meine Welt Auf Corona’ (My World After Corona).

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Art From The Ground Up: A Post-Pandemic Future
Art From The Ground Up: A Post-Pandemic Future

The question is how to achieve those elusive steps to improvement, how to train your vision on a new horizon and attempt to take people with you on that journey.

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