Decameron Row is a quarantine art project that invited 100 artists from all over the world to contribute a one-minute video of what they’ve been doing during lockdown. At the site, you’ll see a building. Click on one of the lighted windows to launch a video. Then another, and another. From the about page:
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In Boccaccio’s 14th-century Decameron, a group of friends avert the loneliness of quarantine during the Black Death by squatting together in an abandoned villa outside of Florence and telling each other stories — 10 people, 10 days, 100 tales. Their stories gave them solace. Since in this moment, global community cannot meet under one roof for comfort and insight, we wondered, how could we gather people from all over the world into one neighborhood, onto one street, where they could share their disparate responses? In this idiosyncratic, virtual place, the curious could click on a window and peek into each others’ lives, much like we had already been doing with one another.
Decameron Row is an experiment in community. We’ve been deliberate about diversity and geographic variety, but we’ve chosen to be guided more by intuition, the generosity of others, and happy accidents than by curatorial intention. The result is a quirky and incomplete record of this strange time. We hope you find it diverting. New videos will be added weekly through the summer until all the windows are occupied.
So far, 27 windows are illuminated, so that’s 27 bite-sized videos for all of us to enjoy. Check it out here. -via Boing Boing
Source: neatorama