During the Summer Semester 2020 and the hold of COVID-19 at the Berlin University of the Arts, some students of the class worked together on producing videos as well as posters based on the Simone Forti video Zuma News (2014). The video work is part of a long series of projects, performances, and video pieces that the artist put together under the title News Animations that she started in the 80's.
 

News Animations is an investigation into “the interactions between verbal thinking, physical sensation, and perception.”¹  Zuma News has been the starting point for thinking and working on how the COVID-19 situation, which had its pick at the beginning of the semester, has brought so many emotions, feelings but also facts, news and politics into a “blanket”²  under which it is comfy but also frustrating to be. 

As a result students created individual works that decipher current events as seen and lived by them: isolation, accumulation of information, domestication and other issues that hold one daily. In weekly class meetings, feedback-loops to one another, communal viewing of the videos, the class elaborated on news, politics, literature, the body, time and movement to create digital and physical performances.