Black Time in the Age of COVID : Improvising Afrologically in both Telematic Performance and Public Health Policy
Fiche du document
2021
- handle: 10670/1.8f8zl8
- doi: 10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6456
Ce document est lié à :
Critical Studies in Improvisation ; vol. 14 no. 1 (2021)
©, 2021EricLewis
Sujets proches
Hours (Time) Competence Medical care--Government policy Policy, Medical Medicine and state Health policy Public health--Government policy State and medicine Public health policy Health care policyCiter ce document
Eric Lewis, « Black Time in the Age of COVID : Improvising Afrologically in both Telematic Performance and Public Health Policy », Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, ID : 10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6456
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
Both telematic performances and COVID suffer from latency. In telematic performance, it is the lag between a musical gesture you make, and the time that others in the network receive it. In COVID, it is lags between contact and showing symptoms, and between public health policy decisions and their effects. I argue that we need to embrace latency as an improvisational partner both in our telematic performances, and in our health care policies. I argue that Black aesthetics and Black approaches to sound and improvisation have long embraced latency, and that we need to become what is sometime called Afro-logical improvisers both in our networked performances and in our COVID related health policies.