A collection of found footage from the lockdown period. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."
I’m at home looking into the distance. I don’t know what distance. People address me through a window. I’m at home eating something. And I see violence. This is a collective illusion. Every collective illusion is madness. But real. I am afraid. I’m scared of the time after. That everything will be like before. But also from the change that must happen. Because change is always violent. I lie here and am afraid. And maybe that makes me feel more human than usual. And this act of being part of a great whole — The excitement bores. and it’s ignorant. Someone writes: I admit that I am less depressed during an actual crisis than I am when I am tormented by disasters that I have caused myself… This just makes me angry. There are some things we can be sure of. We know that the Earth will continue to warm; we know that the negative effects of climate change will increase disproportionately when we move to higher temperatures and that the risk of irreversible and catastrophic changes will increase; we know that sea levels will continue to rise long after we have stabilized the temperature of the Earth’s surface and that ice caps and glaciers will continue to melt. We’re all in the same storm. We’re not all in the same boat.
Text and video by Demian Jakob
Demian Jakob
Demian, born in Berne, Switzerland, grew up in Rumonge, Burundi and Real de Catorce, Mexico. In 2012 he finished an apprenticeship for live event technician at the IHK Karlsruhe, Germany.
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