My practice is socially-engaged and experiential, which – under lockdown conditions – has been impossible to achieve. Subsequently, I’ve been reflecting on a series of work I made for the ISCP (New York), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin) and bar area (Sendai, Japan), and considering this work’s timeliness if it were to be remade. ‘Parky Party’ responds to the culture of launch events and opening nights in the visual art community, which largely exist as social events for those in the arts. We’ve all attended such openings to find that we’ve been drinking and mingling without spending meaningful time with the artwork. 
Parky Party is an ‘anti-socialisation’ bar that prevent visitors from communicating with one another, forcing them to do nothing but drink in solitude. I created booths which separate visitors/patrons from one another so that social contact is entirely limited. Furthermore, guests are prohibited from speaking to the bartender, and may only check the menu. The glass from which the visitors drink is chained to the booth so that they cannot remove it or carry it with them. 
As we enter a period of relaxed lockdown rules, every country and culture will need to adapt to new ways of maintaining social distancing measures. A new version of Parky Party, based on the design of local bars around the Bienalsur exhibition venues, would reflect poignantly on our previous customs in the art world, and our commitment to staying connected, yet distant, in a post-pandemic world.