On the occasion of Printed Matter’s 2021 Virtual Art Book Fair, East of Borneo Editor-in-Chief Tom Lawson joined artists Emma Kemp and Fiona Connor to discuss the role, function, and value of arts education during the sudden transition to remote learning spawned by the global pandemic. As artists and as educators, what do we do when institutional legacy—and memory—is out of sync with reality? The following is an edited transcript of the discussion held on Zoom on February 27, 2021.

Susan Silton is a Los Angeles-based artist whose multidisciplinary projects respond to the complexities of subjectivity in a given moment — often through poetic combinations of humor, discomfort, subterfuge, and unabashed beauty. She speaks here about Type Specimens, a limited-edition serigraph print produced in the pre-pandemic days of early 2020 for East of Borneo.