Opening: August 23rd - 7 p.m. Brazilian time
Vernissage virtual Farol UFSM
In this edition of the Festival of Art, Science and Technology, the challenge of the pandemic pervades the organisation of the event. The starting point in 2021 was the identification of post Covid-19 implications, as proposed by Edgar Morin, focusing more specifically on the digital challenge. The transdisciplinary curatorial approach of the festival is based on the digital circulation with special emphasis on in-situ and online exhibitions strategies. The tension between these different spaces generates new dimensions and challenges, which the artists have been working on for months, presenting, in many cases, dialogues and ruptures, frictions and expansions even in the virtual environment.
The exhibition follows these paths, in which the in-situ space incorporates and triggers new reverberations in the online space. The pandemic - with its experiences, consequences, and damage - still stuns and shocks society as a whole. Within this context, the artists paved the way for emergency responses to make it possible to think and reflect, to activate and create, even putting their own artistic languages under tension. The broken, reconfigured, and vulnerable spatiality acquires other political, aesthetic, and environmental dimensions; and the diverse realities and temporalities expressed in-situ and online come together, antagonize, and delineate new horizons.
Nara Cristina Santos and Mariela Yeregui
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