Can artists wake us from COVID apathy?
“… we need new perspectives to change the national discourse to one that is bold, pragmatic, and compassionate.”
MEDIA FEATURE: Limelight Magazine
Limelight Magazine has kindly published another article of mine about the role artists can play during the pandemic in Australia, at a time where there seems to be little leadership in how we protect those most vulnerable.
… As a broader community we seem to be tired – (un)inspired by an absence of leadership at all levels of government, who promotes inaction as the new COVID-normal. Is it fair to ask artists to step into this leadership void?
I came across this interview from rock band Cake’s lead singer John McCrea, who said of artists, “you’ve got these really sensitive people, canaries in the coal mine as it were, that can sometimes serve society with their ability to sense things coming. Historically artists have been respected – a pragmatic decision by society to say maybe sometimes we should listen to artists.”…