We're Hannes (https://www.artconnect.com/hannes-schievink) & Noa (https://www.artconnect.com/profile/hannes-schievink-noa-zuidervaart), two young artists from the Netherlands. We had been looking for an opportunity to work on a creative project together and came across an open call from Arcade Campfa. Arcade Campfa is an artist-led gallery and project space located in Cardiff. Due to the corona virus they we're hosting a monthlong online residency program and we were selected. 

Both our work has an overly digital note, which corresponds perfectly with the online residency they were hosting. We wanted the digital aspect to play a role in the project as well. So we came up with the plan to make a 'dual narrative'-webcomic about escapism in a time of uncertainty.
As of June 15 we started posting our webcomic on their website, which can be found via this link: https://arcadecampfa.cargo.site/Online-Residency The project is still in progress and we will keep posting new pages until the 15th of July.

The corona virus has bound us to our homes and thus we miss out on a lot of the adventures we normally experience. With our story we would like to offer the reader a way to add some of that adventure back into their lives. The webcomic follows two parties fleeing an undefined danger on Earth and is a mix of campy science-fiction, drama and existentialism. 
Within this project we explore how two separate narratives can tell one whole story. On the one side we have a group of people escaping the dangers of earth in a space capsule and on the other side we have a lonesome individual left on our deserted planet. 
Both parties experience feelings of isolation in a whole different way. The group has to survive each others madness in a confined space, while the stranded figure has to survive his own - on an empty planet. 
During these strange times they are only able to communicate via e-mail: which forms the leitmotiv of the whole comic. Similar to the way the two parties in the story react on each others e-mails, Hannes and Noa react on each others comic pages; thus creating dialogue and correspondence.

Correspondence and dialogue is an important theme throughout this project we're working on. The story we create is about the correspondence between the two different parties (one on earth and one in space). But because we are creating this project together with the two of us, correspondence is also important because we only communicate with each other about the project by reacting on each others pages.

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