Unlike originally planned and scheduled, the interdisciplinary symposium "PERSPEKTIVEN_20/21: Die Kunst und die Krise" could take place in November 2020 - partly at the University of Music Würzburg, but mainly in digital form. Prof. Clara Blessing, the initiator and organizer of this exchange, found a format for the event that was discursively stimulating and profitable in terms of content, which was also feasible under the current regulations surrounding the Corona pandemic.

The publication "Die Kunst und die Krise - Analysen und Perspektiven" (Art and the Crisis - Analyses and Perspectives), edited by Clara Blessing and Prof. Dr. Christoph Henzel at the publishing house Königshausen & Neumann, brings together the papers presented at the symposium, which examine the effects of the Corona pandemic on cultural life from various perspectives. They deal with emergency solutions for closed cultural institutions, with the existential challenges faced by artists, and with the prospects for art and culture. Numerous questions were - and still are - raised: How dangerous is making music for our health? How have musicians and artists responded to crises throughout history? What is the social relevance of art in the present? What professional and artistic perspectives are offered to aspiring arts and culture professionals?

The volume includes the following contributions:

• Maria Schuppert, Making music in the pandemic: state of research on risks from SARS-CoV-2 in instrumental performance and vocal performance.
• Christoph Henzel, Lockdown and Pandemic in Music History - A Search for Traces
• Damian Dombrowski, Crises, Catastrophes, Cataclysms - Forms of Dealing in the Visual Arts
• Wolfgang M. Schröder, Is art system-relevant? Analyses of the idea of a 'sustainable culture
• Susanne Keuchel, Music of the Future - Culture in Postglobal and Postdigital Times
• Evelyn Meining, Cultural Creation in Times of Crisis: Program Planning and Format Development
• Stefanie Jerger in conversation with Ursula Nusser, Who should pay? Cultural Funding in the 21st Century
• Markus Sotirianos, Corona and the Consequences
• Almut Gatz, Gerhard Sammer, Renate Reitinger, Andrea Sangiorgio, Digital Learning and Teaching in the Summer Semester 2020 - A Study on Perspectives of Students and Teachers at Bavarian Music Universities in the Corona Crisis

The Arts and the Crisis - Analyses and Perspectives, ISBN: 978-3-8260-7224, €38.