Moriah LeFebvre, SPL Fellow and MFA-EDAWorks in Rough GoingPresented by the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke
Works in Rough Going: Recovery Community and Communication During the Pandemic,on display in the Keohane-Kenan Gallery and online beginning April 9th, is an exhibit that focuses on the wrenching loss of community for people in substance abuse recovery in the wake of COVID-19. For months, in-person meetings, long a supportive lifeline for people emerging from alcohol and drug abuse, were all canceled due to the coronavirus. New, virtual ways of engaging have sprung up in the intervening months, offering new, if imperfect, ways of engaging. LeFebvre’s work documents some of the text exchanges between people in recovery as they sought to understand and process the limitations on in-person meetings as the pandemic disrupted and severed most in-person meetings. In the process, she asks important questions about the fragile and often-ephemeral nature of community, the immense toll of life under lockdown for vulnerable populations, and how communities continue to care and protect one another when their normal ways of doing so are impossible. LeFebvre did independent study work with Pedro Lasch and FHI SPL for this project and her thesis film ‘by & by’ throughout 2020-2021.
- Virtual exhibit link:https://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/works-in-rough-going/
- Join the panel discussion at Kenan via zoom at:https://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/event/works-in-rough-going-opening-talk-panel/