
CIRCA: Cauleen Smith – COVID MANIFESTO, Piccadilly Circus (Nov 2020)
The Showroom and CIRCA, the new and independently curated digital art platform, launched its second month of programming on The Piccadilly Lights with Cauleen Smith.
CIRCA’s inaugural c. 20:20 exhibition transforms the giant 4K screen of Piccadilly Lights into a digital canvas each month by pausing the adverts on screen for two minutes each day at 20:20 - 20:22 GMT. Cauleen’s work COVID MANIFESTO consisted of 23 pronouncements that unfold in a sequence, a crescendo, that were punctuated by 7 intermissions selected from Smith’s existing works. Over the month, the personal and poetic, the eventful and now historical, will feature as Smith responds to Covid-19 and its multiple aftermaths. The CIRCA website was also transformed into an extraordinary archive of past projects from the artist’s trajectory, references from her ongoing research and allusions to her revolutionary imaginary, constituting a virtual mid-career survey.
More info and watch live here: circa.art.




