The art in the pandemic scene

Abstract

Nowadays, in difficult times of coronavirus in a country where there is a lack of public policies engaged in the preservation of life, whether human or planetary, there are many challenges presented, from the fight for survival to the creation of new ways of being, doing, communicating, and also new ways of researching. Especially when we propose to follow inside and outside of school movements, with the researches about everyday life, when meetings, conversations, listening, and exchanges with and among the thinking practitioners become the conceptual characters of theses. It is intended, in this dossier, to report some experiences woven with the threads of the stories and desires of the authors about the necessary tactical deviations to the maintenance of life and work, in the scope of education and culture, as the development of cultural policies and projects, since the dismantling of culture, which was part of the coup against the legitimately elected government of the president Dilma Rousseff, until the experience of the pandemic arising from the coronavirus. Events that crossed and significantly modified the lives of all, more than a year later and perhaps forever. A becoming that announces itself in the fragility of human survival, in the difficulty of equity and social justice, and in the realisation of the importance of the Sciences and the Arts, woven by democratic public policies, for the dignified survival of all.  These were experiences and continue to be learning experiences for educators, workers in the making of art, and for the various audiences who interact through the screens. New educational networks are expanded and woven, establishing relations and diverse uses in communication, in curating, in production, in artistic enjoyment, in criticism, and in the strengthening of the educational and cultural links that we form and where we are formed. These are experiences that permeate the curricular practices of the school and many networks that overflow the academic daily life with other uses, new fruition, and diverse ways of teaching-learning.