Conversation between Pandemics through Art. Social Imaginaries of Hiv/Aids and Covid-19, Care and Affections

ABSTRACT

This research presents a study of the artistic practices that treat the pandemics social imaginaries of HIV and COVID-19. The main target is analyzing the main artistic strategies that have been implemented in relationship with the social's representation of the illness from the perspective of the cares and the affections having in mind the connections and frictions that have been stablished with the pandemic's contexts. It's considered that, during the first decades of the HIV pandemic takes place, from the artistic point of view, emancipatory attempts that had an important impact in the social and the artistic and it study if some of this strategy has been present in the artistic practices about COVID-19 taking care of the evolution and the transformations experimented in the actual context. A qualitative methodology has been implemented, with an inductive-interpretive focus and it starts with a study of the multiple cases that allows to determine a series of categories that works like a cartography mode from which offers an analysis of the studied practices. The research manifests the potential of art for contradict some of the bases of the social imaginary of the infective illness pandemic in the contemporary and for building a tool of action in the social, in collaboration with other disciplines.