As border closures changed our workplaces, and new authoritarianisms shaped our life, this panel explores how the ‘new normal’ reinvents concepts of nationalism.
All would agree that while some normalcy has returned, our lives remain very different to our pre-COVID world.
A new exhibition at Macquarie University Gallery, and recent panel discussion with the curators, asked the question what nationalism looks like in the wake of COVID.
Have Federation ideals of unity finally been exhausted thanks to the pandemic? And do we value internationalism and localism differently in its wake?
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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