Culture against Covid-19

The Municipality of São Paulo, through the Municipal Department of Culture, announced a special program between August and September with various artistic interventions that reflected on Covid-19 pandemic that was affecting the country and the world. They are artistic interventions, some of a scenographic nature, designed to be appreciated by pedestrians, car passengers and public transport and residents of buildings in the surroundings where they were held. The idea was that the proposals work as instruments of sociocultural transformations that ensure the defense of the lives and memory of those who are gone, in addition to empathize with those who lost loved ones during the pandemic. These are projects that also operate as part of public health policies, as they open a dialogue about local, cultural and social contexts, with aesthetic and socially disruptive actions in the urban fabric of the city, making art and culture antidotes for the 21st century.