Hosted by The Peale Center 

Virtual – Free

Join the Peale’s David London and Nancy Proctor as they chat with Prof. Tom Boellstorff at the Peale in Second Life about transition and change in the cultural sector. This chat will take place one day after the inauguration of a new President in the United States, and also during what may prove to be the period of highest COVID-19 infection. The pandemic has changed so much, and it has taken place during a time of social and political change as well. How should we think about all these transitions in the context of COVID? How do our “transitions” between the physical world and virtual worlds shape this broader sense of change? And what might not be changing in all this? Finally, how can exhibitions and cultural organizations help us understand and rethink transition in these troubled times?

This event is part of the “Virtual Cultures in Pandemic Times” project from the University of California, Irvine, and is being filmed by Bernhard Drax aka Draxtor.