I come from a small village in the far east of Germany, where I grew up in a house with my siblings, parents and grandparents. My childhood is embedded in the post-reunification period and many things there still seem a bit out of time. I was surrounded by forest, animals and especially older people with an agricultural background.

As physical places are shut, people are locked into their homes and the online business world is booming. Zoom, Shopify, Instagram, Clubhouse have all adapted to engage, advertise and sell to their customers. Zoom parties, Clubhouse talks, Instagram Lives, this is about how social it has gotten in Covid times. I have thought about these tools for Studi0 and how they can or cannot be used in terms of engaging and replacing events in the art sector and here are my thoughts on it: