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.

Artist Fiona Connor ran Laurel Doody, an experimental exhibition space, out of her apartment-studio on Cloverdale Avenue from April 2015 to 2016. This interview, in which Thomas Lawson and Connor discuss the Laurel Doody project, was conducted in another Silver Lake apartment in early September 2016.