The State of My Art

Update From 2019 REACH Recipient Andrew Kushnir

Update From 2019 REACH Recipient Andrew Kushnir

This pandemic era has sensitized me to windows of opportunity, feeling the ways in which things expand and appreciably contract as we co-exist with COVID. The accordion of it all. As I write this, I can’t help but think of the swath of Canadian performing artists who have just had their shows cancelled for early 2022 (some beyond) due to Omicron. My own company has had to reconsider long-held plans for the early part of the new year. This is not where we imagined ourselves to be, as a sector, and as artists in this country, after nearly two years of navigating the global health crisis…