PLU Presents featuring John Hicks

PLU Presents featuring the legendary John Hicks

This episode of PLU Presents featuring John Hicks, marks the fourth week of the French lockdown. In the eclectic collection of videos within, one can see how the quarantine is starting to impact the creative process. Hosted by Helen O’Keeffe, writer extraordinaire and queen of all things Dada, these artists play with apocalypse dating, skeleton invasions, and cats dancing with owls. Through it all, John Hicks provides soulful songs and guitar in a series of thoughtful, original settings.

Helen O’Keeffe, PLU’s fabulous artistic editor, is on fire

But weighty matter, too, as artists wrestle with the sense of claustrophobia, or change, of rot. Something has been lost, is being lost, and it falls to us to give it voice. We at Paris Lit Up are extraordinarily grateful for all the artists who have contributed to this artistic record - may your talents continue to bloom and guide!

Despite everything, our community flourishes, and you can be a part of it. We invite you to join this historical moment by emailing your work (via WeTransfer) to info@parislitup.com

Guidelines

·         3-minute max. video (unless you are the feature)

·         save in .mp4 format (please no Youtube links, unless it is the only copy of it)

·         please film horizontally - your camera that is, not necessarily your person

·         name of your piece, the artist, location and any other relevant info in the title

·         decent sound and image quality

·   be careful of copyright material (PLU = COPYLEFT)

·         old or new footage, your submission has to have been made in confinement

List of Artists: John Hicks (feature), Helen Cusack O’Keeffe (host), Nia Cason, Ed Bell, Leah Soeiro, Henri Aden, Rufo Quintavalle, El Habib Louai, 3lia (aka Rorsha), Richard Earls, Dr CC Kalozum, Alex Louloudis, Anthony Thomas Lombardi, Matt Jones, Vera Dickman, Bruno Franceschi, Vivenne Vermes, Ed Bell.