Projeto Sintoma: uma experiência de curadoria e produção artística em tempos de pandemia.

Abstract

During the Covid-19 pandemic, mainly in the quarantine period, in 2020/21, it was experienced a strong intensification in the relationship between human beings and the luminous screens. Physical and gathering spaces were reduced and directed almost or totally to the virtual space. In this context, cultural institutions and artists initiated a debate looking for strategies and answers for the continuity of your actions in a virtual way. Through this reality, this work aims to comprehend how artists were impacted by limits and new possibilities due to social isolation during the pandemic, investigating an specific experience - the Sintoma Project, that was developed as an alternative proposal of the curricular component Estágio em instituições culturais, in Art major in UFPB. Based on a bibliographical research, about institutional and artistic experiences and their relationship with the virtual world; documentary research, with the records produced by the Project; and interviews with the participating artists, this work aims to understand which strategies and paths were developed in Projeto Sintoma to carry out curation and artistic events in a virtual way, seeking more specifically to know and analyze the participation of artists in this proposal.As a participant of the proposal, I also count on my own experience as artist and curator of the Project, reporting impressions, productions and describing actions that were possible to unfold with the Sintoma.