Links to projects, writing, podcasts + that have inspired and informed our project.
Publications & Projects by ZCMP team and participants
“Mapping Covid-19’s Transnational Implications for Women Workers,” by Lee Xie
The Last Best Hope podcast: “Memorialising Covid,” with Marianne Hirsch and James Young
Acts of Memory and Repair in a Suspended Present: New York City 2022 On Coronavirus, Memory and Repair with Guest Speaker Prof Marianne Hirsch Covid-19 Pandemic Anniversary Special, The Connecting Memories Podcast
Reparative Memory: Trauma, Memory, Accountability, and Repair, What can we do when it seems that nothing can be done and doing nothing is not an option? Lecture by Diana Taylor at CSU Chico Humanities Center
[ConTactos] co-edited by Diana Taylor
“‘It’s Not Enough’: Living Through a Pandemic on $100 a week” and COVID-19 Coverage for the The New York Times, photographs by Desiree Rios
“The Museum as Mangrove: How Brigada Puerta de Tierra is Fighting the Gentrification of San Juan,” by Carina del Valle Schorske
“The Ladder Up: A Restless History of Washington Heights,” by Carina del Valle Schorske
“Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief,” by Carina del Valle Schorske
Black America and Covid podcast series, by Sonja J. Killebrew
Website as Archive, Public Humanities presentation by Meg Jianing Zhang and Lex Taylor (web designer, ZCMP)
A/P/A Voices – A COVID-19 Public Memory Project documenting the COVID-19 pandemic and the myriad of ways it has and will impact Asian/Pacific American communities in New York City and nationally, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, in collaboration with Tomie Arai, Lena Sze, Vivian Truong, and Diane Wong.
Humanities for Humans: Repair, Reparation, Refusal is a discussion hosted by 1014 – Space for Ideas with Hortense Spillers and Marianne Hirsch about how these concepts can address the legacies of structural racism, historical violence and institutional failure that the pandemic so starkly revealed.
“Against Fatalism: Exercising Utopianism through Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed” (forthcoming in TDR/The Drama Review), by Guilherme E. Meyer
ZCMP Press
”Covid Memorials Offer a Place to Put Our Grief” by Jillian Steinhauer, The New York Times
”The Zip Code Memory Project Provides Connection, Healing, and Plans for Change”, Columbia | Neighbors
”How Do You Memorialize Loss, Violence and Injustice?” Columbia News
Artist Projects
A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial, by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer [Interview with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, The Monument Lab]
The COVID-19 Outbreak in the Navajo Nation by Donovan Quintero, National Museum of the American Indian [More photo essays: Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field]
Memorial Crane Project, by Karla Funderburk
The Healing Memorial, by Sonya Clark, Detroit
“Through Art, Texans Memorialize Victims of Uvalde Shootings,” by Elaine Velie
“Four Studies of Black Healing,” by Gioncarlo Valentine and Elliot Jerome Brown Jr
Arrivals + Departures, an interactive public installation about birth, death and the journey in-between by YARA + DAVINA
“Vt. Poet Laureate Mary Ruefle Mails Verse To Vermonters In ‘Random Acts Of Poetry,’” by Mitch Wertlieb
“Covid Maps Reveal Personal Pandemic Landscapes,” by Laura Bliss and Jessica Martin
#SENIORLIVESMATTER | Bronx Documentary Center
Magnum Foundation | The Nation Photo Essays
COVID-19 Public Art Projects | Covid19Toolkit, COVID19.CA.gov
COVID-19 Documentaries: The Politics of Representation and Production by Bao Feng and Charles Musser, CINEASTE
More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021–2022, LaToya Ruby Frazier in collaboration with physician-researcher Lisa Cooper, John Hopkins
Stories
Disability Covid Chronicles, NYU Center for Disability Studies
Black America and Covid, by Sonja J. Killebrew
NYC Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive, Columbia Center for Oral HIstory Project
OneWorld COVID-19 Special Collection, Stories of Chinese Americans and the Chinese diaspora resisting coronavirus-fueled hate, Museum of Chinese Americans, New York
The 63106 Project, Before Ferguson Beyond Ferguson, a racial equity project telling the stories of multi-generational families in St. Louis
”Remembering the New Yorkers We’ve Lost to Covid-19”, The City
“The Service Workers Who Kept New York Alive During Its Worst Months of Covid,” by Todd Heisler and David Gonzalez
The Daily: “Stories from the Great American Labor Shortage”
“‘It’s Not Enough’: Living Through a Pandemic on $100 a week” by Annie Correal and Desiree Rios .
[More COVID-19 Photographic Coverage for the The New York Times, by Desiree Rios. ]
“The Borough We Became: Queens Residents on Life During COVID-19,” Season Two of the Queens Memory Podcast, from the Queens Memory Project.
The Covid-NYC Documentary Project by the Gotham Center for New York City History is a clearinghouse for the various efforts by museums, universities, libraries, neighborhood groups, and individuals to historically document New York City’s experience with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Framework: ZIP Codes
“A Covid Epicenter Hustles Back to Life,” by Annie Correal, The New York Times
“The Tyranny of the Zip Code: They Don’t Just Locate Us. They Define Us,” by Anna Clark, New Republic
The Opportunity Atlas, Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty?
The Color Of Care, Smithsonian Channel, Oprah Winfrey looks at racial inequities in America’s healthcare system and what needs to be done to change it.
“Long COVID Symptoms Most Common Among Latinos Residents The Bronx.” The City
“The Ladder Up: A Restless History of Washington Heights,” by Carina del Valle Schorske
How NYC’s Poorest Borough Sustained Itself Through the Pandemic, video directed by Michael Kamber of the Bronx Documentary Center. When COVID-19 arrived in the U.S., it hit New York City harder than any other metropolitan area. Its impact was anything but equal. The video probes the neglect behind the death toll in the city’s hardest hit borough, the Bronx.
Analysis: Essays, Articles, Podcasts +
“Preparing to Imagine,” by Fred Moten, delivered as part of the ZCMP Imagine Repair performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, April 2022. Watch video.
Corona Conversations: A Year of Plague & Protests, CUNY FORUM Volume 8:1 (2020), CUNY Asian American / Asian Research Institute
”The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear: All of this will happen again,” by Ed Yong, The Atlantic
“The Final Pandemic Betrayed,” by Ed Yong, The Atlantic
“The Museum as Mangrove: How Brigada Puerta de Tierra is Fighting the Gentrification of San Juan,” by Carina del Valle Schorske, Frieze
“Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief,” by Carina del Valle Schorske, The New York Times
Coronavirus Archives, readingthepictures.org
“Creating an Inhabitable World for Humans Means Dismantling Rigid Forms of Individuality,” by Judith Butler, TIME
Long COVID: A Brief Overview, American Society on Aging
“What if America Had Learned from New York City?,” by Mara Gay, The New York Times
“Learning from the Virus,” by Paul B. Preciado, Art Forum
In the Wake of the Plague: Eros and Mourning, Conference at Dartmouth College, April 20222
“If You’re Suffering After Being Sick With Covid, It’s Not Just in Your Head,” by Zeynep Tufekci, The New York Times
“The Year Was 2020,” in Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those Who Lived It, by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira, The New Press
“Opinion | U.S. covid death toll reaches 1 million. Here’s just how bad that is”. By Sergio Peçanha and Yan Wu, Washington Post
Website as Archive, Public Humanities presentation by Meg Jianing Zhang and Lex Taylor (web designer, ZCMP)
Acts of Memory and Repair in a Suspended Present: New York City 2022 On Coronavirus, Memory and Repair with Guest Speaker Prof Marianne Hirsch Covid-19 Pandemic Anniversary Special, The Connecting Memories Podcast
What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology, by Judith Butler, Columbia University Press, 2022, In this new book, Judith Butler offers a new account of interdependency in which touching and breathing, capacities that amid a viral outbreak can threaten life itself, challenge the boundaries of the body.
Humanities for Humans: Repair, Reparation, Refusal is a discussion hosted by 1014 – Space for Ideas with Hortense Spillers and Marianne Hirsch about how these concepts can address the legacies of structural racism, historical violence and institutional failure that the pandemic so starkly revealed.
Tracking
The COVID Tracking Project, The Atlantic
COVID-19 Impact Project, John Henry Thompson & Shindy Johnson
”Pandemic Death Counts Are Numbing. There’s Another Way to Process”, WIRED by Jacqueline Wernimont
History as it Happens: Rescuing the Historical Record in a Digital World, How NYU librarians are ensuring that complex data journalism about COVID-19 and digital scholarship are preserved for future generations.
Memorials
A/P/A Voices – A COVID-19 Public Memory Project documenting the COVID-19 pandemic and the myriad of ways it has and will impact Asian/Pacific American communities in New York City and nationally, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, in collaboration with Tomie Arai, Lena Sze, Vivian Truong, and Diane Wong.
“How Will the Future Remember Covid-19?,” by Ian Bogost, theAtlantic
Homegoing | CovidBlack, Data & Honor, Remembering Black Lives Restoring Humanity
“Imagining a Memorial to an Unimaginable Number of Covid Deaths,” The New York Times
”Opinion | Why New York Needs a Covid Memorial,” The New York Times
“What Loss Looks Like: Times Readers Share Artifacts of Remembrance,” by Dani Blum and Jaspal Riyai, The New York Times
“Covid Memorials Offer a Place to Put Our Grief,” by Jillian Steinhauer, The New York Times
“670,000 Flags on the National Mall Pay Tribute to America’s Devastating Covid-19 Losses,” by Rachel Hartigan, National Geographic
“Memorials to Covid-19 Must Hold Space for Grief and Accountability,” by Paul M. Farber and Patricia Eunji Kim, Monument Lab
“Covid, Commemoration, and Cultural Memory,” by Alice Kelley
“Urged by Battery Park City Locals, Work Paused on Essential Workers Monument,” by Valentina Di Liscia, Hyperallergic
“A World Remembers: Memorials Honor Covid-19’s 5 Million Dead,” by Colleen Barry, AP News
“Giving Shape to Grief: Covid-19 Memorials from around the World,” by Heather Hopp-Bruce, Boston Globe
“In Malibu, a Large Hole Is Being Dug to Contain Your Grief,” by Matt Stromberg, Hyperallergic
The Last Best Hope podcast: “Memorialising Covid,” with Marianne Hirsch and James Young
Marked by Covid’s Memorial Matrix is a crowd-sourced online library of Covid memorials and remembrances throughout the United States.
“The Many Losses from Covid-19” is an ephemeral memorial at Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery (May 3-29, 2023) created by Naming The Lost Memorials and City Lore with help from twenty New York City community partners.
Activism
Pandemic Response Institute, The New York City (NYC) Pandemic Response Institute (PRI) is a resource supporting New York City agencies, organizations, and communities to prepare and respond to critical public health crises.
Marked by Covid, Marked by Covid Project
Covid Know More, NAACP
“Scarred by Covid, Survivors and Victims’ Families Aim to Be a Political Force,” by Sheryl Gray Stolberg
“Grieving Families Asked Congress to Recognize Covid’s Victims. It Didn’t Go Well,” by William Wan
The Most Beautiful Home… Maybe, Using Art to Influence Housing Policy
– Hey Neighbor NYC, a community art project that connects people together across all five boroughs and many cultural communities, from the newest immigrants to families who have resided here for generations by Kisha Bari and Jasmin Chang. Follow on Instagram.
Confronting COVID-19 Loss in Harlem, A Columbia World project aimed to reduce COVID-19 related grief in Harlem’s Black community by partnering Columbia researchers with local faith leaders and other community leaders to address intense and pervasive grief that has emerged as a result of the pandemic.
Header: The Human Toll (May 24, 2020), Lorie Novak, 2020
