“Carole Karemera of Rwanda, Ecuador’s Susan Togra and Vikram Iyengar of India spoke about the general precarity of the arts in their respective contexts, and that COVID-19 conditions were simply reinforcing the fragility of a sector about which few Global South governments seem to care. And yet, it was argued that artists should be regarded as essential workers, for how else would many have stayed sane through the isolation of the pandemic were it not for online films, music, literature, comedy and television?”