About this work
{"type":"root","children":[{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"Published by CIRCA on the occasion of COVID MANIFESTO (2020), "},{"type":"text","value":"The Internet Is Not The Answer","italic":true},{"type":"text","value":" is a hand-signed edition by Cauleen Smith released alongside a month-long public commission conceived during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Broadcast daily on Piccadilly Lights, COVID MANIFESTO unfolds through a series of handwritten pronouncements that consider care, isolation, justice and collective responsibility at a moment of profound global uncertainty."}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"Created and hand-printed by Smith in her Los Angeles studio, the work distils one of the commission's most direct and enduring statements into a concise visual proposition. Produced in an edition of 150, the silver silkscreen on pink notepaper combines the intimacy of a personal note with the urgency of a public declaration, questioning society's growing dependence on digital infrastructures at a time when human connection is increasingly mediated through screens."}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"Throughout her practice, Smith draws upon experimental cinema, Black cultural histories, spirituality and radical imagination to envision alternative ways of living together. Both poetic and provocative, "},{"type":"text","value":"The Internet Is Not The Answer","italic":true},{"type":"text","value":"reflects the artist's enduring belief that moments of crisis can create opportunities to reconsider what truly sustains us as individuals and communities."}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":""}]}]}
Edition details
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Publication information
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Public impact
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