Has Covid-19 killed the live event?


Lindsey Colbourne in conversation with Sarah Pogoda, February 2022


Last week I was interviewed by Sarah Pogoda as part of her Arts and Humanities Research Council research project, exploring how artists are re-inventing the live event in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sarah is an extraordinary person, the opposite of an archetypal academic: She has been central to enabling the creative arts in North Wales to re-emerge from the pandemic - including (but by no means limited to) organising two arts festivals along with Anna Powell - the first Surrealist Saffaru in September 2020 and the second the Metamorffosis festival in North Wales in June 2021.

You can see Sarah’s blog here and her next event “Small Scale Solutions - Re-inventing the Live Event” is on zoom 21-22 February 2022: I’m running a workshop as part of the conference and the programme looks fantastic! See details/register (free) here

The video of my interview with Sarah is the first time I’ve talked about my ‘practice’, and it includes video clips and images of various of my projects over the years, and how the pandemic has affected my practice. I thought I’d share it, in case of interest…