The (new) age of pandemics has renewed conditions for rethinking localized and situated practices. This first panel discussion revisits proximity and communal artistic labor for collectives, institutions, and less formalized groupings. The second panel discussion engages political and public networks and coalitions within modes of artistic public practice. Presentations discuss the mutual priorities of embeddedness and connectedness in creative solidarities and learning structures across physical distance. Further topics include co-situated learning and embodied study for coalitional practice.