Arts en temps de crise au Brésil, en Argentine et en Colombie : résistances et activismes au prisme des mémoires politiques

This project aims to analyze artistic practices in times of crisis, in relation to the social and political context that has prevailed in Brazil since the last presidential elections, in Argentina in the throes of an economic debacle with heavy social consequences and in Colombia where persistent political violence and human rights abuses. The aim is to map artistic practices that develop in a critical relationship to these contexts of social, political and economic crisis. If "resistance rests on the situation it is fighting" (Foucault), this project intends to examine how artists "live from adversity" (Oiticica) through creative forms of engagement that combat inequalities and discrimination social security, censorship and the orientations of cultural policies. It will thus be necessary to draw up an inventory of these practices which emerge urgently in the face of the threats which affect the freedom of expression, to follow in the heart of the experiment the tactics adopted by the artists, individually or organized in collective. In this prospect, we will take into account the differences in the scale of intervention of these practices and the contesting dynamics that they initiate, from local scenes to the national framework in back and forth between micro and macro politics on the one hand and between the present and the memories of the political past on the other hand.