ABSTRACT
This chapter expands upon the panel discussion “All the World’s Futures: Global Art and Art History in the Wake of COVID-19” held virtually on March 4, 2021. The title comes from the 2015 Venice Biennale curated by the late Okwui Enwezor, to suggest a consideration of the current state of things as well as future states of things. Organized about a year after the first COVID-19 cases were publicly identified in the US, this panel brought together artists and curators from four continents—Ho Tzu Nyen, Serge Alain Nitegeka, and Project Anywhere’s Sean Lowry and Simone Douglas—to reflect on the impacts of the pandemic on global practices and even the possibilities that may have arisen. The chapter includes mediations on the themes that emerged in the conversation, as summarized by the panel’s organizers and moderators. “All the World’s Futures” was intended as a prompt, an evocation, even a provocation, because we seem to be in a period of critical discovery and transition.
