“Zoom” is a performance video I made during the lockdown in spring of 2020. I needed to continue producing work for my MFA program, which I was finishing my first year of at the time. Despite the dread and instability that characterized this period, the demands of school and work remained arbitrarily in place for many of us. This piece was a response to the pressures being placed on creative people to continue laboring away during a global crisis in the name of upholding institutional standards.