The Quarantine Tapes

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The Quarantine Tapes 102: Moshe Safdie Sep 21, 2020

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“I would say that, in terms of the work of an architect, there are those projects which affect our daily life in a profound way. The workspace, how we live, the public realm. But also, as architects, we are called to rise to a much more profound, and demanding, symbolic level. That occurs when we design a place of worship, a memorial, a significant museum devoted to a significant subject. That is when architects go from “routine” music to “profound” music, if I’m to make a composer’s analogy.”

The Quarantine Tapes 101: Garnette Cadogan Sep 17, 2020

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“What is going to become of public space? These places are so important. [I’ve been] thinking about the ways in which we acknowledge each other, the way we interact with each other, the way we see ourselves in a shared vision, shared responsibility, the ways in which we are connected and see ourselves in civic unison with each other.”

The Quarantine Tapes 100: Gary Hart Sep 16, 2020

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“If people can’t walk down the streets of Washington D.C. or Denver, Colorado and protest peacefully without being tear-gassed or assaulted by police or unmarked military forces, and put in unidentified vehicles, then we’re halfway towards a police state.”

The Quarantine Tapes 099: "Sarah" Sep 15, 2020

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“I was angry because this was something that was anticipated. This virus was first in China back in December. Italy in January. Our first case in the U.S. was back in February. By mid-March, all fifty states had COVID. We were all hearing and reading about what was quickly unfolding in Italy and I think we could have done better, we could have prepared better, but more importantly, I think our patients deserved better.”

The Quarantine Tapes 098: Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger Sep 14, 2020

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“Opera is not always thought of in the same way as cinema or literature in terms of what representation means, and what it means to posit a future for humanity. But I think that opera very much plays a role in the shaping of a cultural identity.”

The Quarantine Tapes 097: Ziad Antar Sep 10, 2020

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“Hope became fiction. You cannot build on anything when you see the amount of destruction.”

The Quarantine Tapes 096: Daniel Mendelsohn Sep 09, 2020

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“You can ignore history, but it will not ignore you. To some extent what we are seeing unfolding in this extraordinary, concentrated, and dramatic way in this country is a country many of whose people thought they were somehow immune from history and politics and epidemiological disasters.”

The Quarantine Tapes 095: Maaza Mengiste Sep 08, 2020

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On episode 095 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Maaza Mengiste.

The Quarantine Tapes 094: Claudia Rankine Aug 10, 2020

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“It’s really about how [we can] begin to look at this society and talk about what’s valued in it in order to see what’s not valued. Until you can do that, until you can name the things that are valued, you won’t be able to understand the things that aren’t valued.”

The Quarantine Tapes 093: Howard Bryant Aug 06, 2020

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“It’s all been sort of turned on its head and it makes me wonder if some of what we’re seeing is performative and it doesn’t have a great deal of muscle behind it. But at the same time, I don’t want to be cynical, I don’t want to think in these terms, because sometimes what ends up happening when you look at history is that you do have a spark. Sometimes there is that matchstick. For some reason a lot of the matchsticks don’t catch, but one of the matches in the matchbook catches. Maybe what we’re seeing is the match finally catching after George Floyd.”

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