LUX IN LOCKDOWN a discussion series

LUX IN LOCKDOWN is a new regular discussion series reflecting on international art, film and wider culture during the lockdown. We will be talking with our colleagues around the world to understand how the situation is affecting arts and culture in other countries, getting a deeper insight into the work of some of our current collaborators and thinking together about what a better, more equitable future beyond this moment might look like.
This Wednesday 13th May on Zoom (also streaming live on the LUX moving image Facebook page) for our first edition we welcome the following guests:
Fernando Chaves Espinach on art and film in lockdown in Costa Rica.
Fernando is a writer, journalist and independent film programmer who lives in Costa Rica. His writing appears regularly in La Nación. He was previously programmer at the Costa Rica International Film Festival for three years and returned as guest curator for the 2020 edition after studying at Birkbeck, University of London (2018/19). He was also Public Programme Assistant at LUX (2019-20). He writes on film, literature and contemporary art from Costa Rica and Central America and his work has appeared in Revista RARA, Itch, BBC Storyworks, NANG Magazine (online), and other outlets. He became co-host of the radio show Desayunos con Radio Universidad in 2020.
Jemma Desai on arts in the Sunken Place and the failure of diversity in UK arts institutions in advance of her new online discussion series This Work isn’t for Us launching on 27th May.
Jemma is a born and bred Londoner who is reconsidering her work biography after having spent the last year looking straight into the void of institutional life. She is currently a researcher and writer, sometimes talks about her feelings in public, and used to have a film programming practice that she hopes to re-imagine in a better future.
Amy Fung on her book, Before I was a Critic, I was a Human Being which addresses Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism and settler colonialism through the lens of a national art critic.
Amy is a Canada-based writer and organizer working across intersections of histories and identities. She is currently a Doctoral student at Carleton University and received her Masters in English and Film Studies from the University of Alberta in 2009 with a specialization in criticism, poetics, and the moving image. Her writings have been commissioned and published by festivals, museums, and publications nationally and internationally.
LUX in LOCKDOWN is hosted by Sun Park and Benjamin Cook.

You can find the recording of this discussion on the LUX Facebook page. Or watch the full video below.