Lockdown Lives
In 2020 we invited artists who were part of CAST’s programme to write about what they had been doing, thinking and reading during the lockdown.
Melanie Smith
Over the past couple of years, I have been filming performative events and making videos at a distance – through webcams, FaceTime and Skype. One particular piece recreated William Blake’s ‘Circle of the Lustful’ illustration for Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy: Inferno’, in the form of a tableau vivant. Performers re-enacted the illustration, remaining still for a…