Produciendo en pandemia: procesos de producción en artes visuales contemporáneas de Guayaquil a partir del impacto del COVID-19

Abstract

The creation and production of contemporary visual arts in Guayaquil in the wake of covid-19 has not stopped. The present study shows how visual artists' design and production process were conceived after the pandemic impact, as well as their reorganizations, limitations, and created opportunities in the artistic and local context from this historical moment. With a qualitative focus and through the autoethnographic method, the interviews with the legitimate actors of The World of Arts (Danto, 1964) from Guayaquil and that were exhibited, at least once, during this time, reveal critical aspects for the production of visual arts in the city during the sanitary crisis. The use of affections in the materialization of their works, the presence of a new generation of artists, the development of an expository environment in the central zone, and the networks of community artists as a response to the precariousness of the work in arts and culture are some of them. This inquiry also shows, through a live investigation (Springgay et al., 2005), how to know about the process of creation and production of the investigated helpers resulted in a personal inquisition recognizer of my narrative self (Bochner, 1997), represented in a proposal of contemporary visual art. Keywords: contemporary arts, visual arts, creative processes, artistic production, COVID-19.