Mais vale o magnetismo que faz a agulha da bússola apontar, do que a direção para onde ela aponta

Coletivo Ka em Florianópolis

Abstract

The Ka Collective emerges in Florianópolis as a response to the disaster posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which brutally affected the conditions whereby street people manage to stay alive. The group’s response went beyond the need to gather individual artists who already were involved with socially engaged art practices in order to attend to the street people’s drastic new conditions. The forging of an art collective within the context of the pandemic became the means with which to propel actions so as to address the socio-political, cultural, and subjective complexities of a scenario of – new and old – urgencies. Meeting the hygiene and social isolation protocols of the first stages of the pandemic, the collective sought to re-gather a communal practice wherein to share and build knowledge, experiences, engender politics of affection and care, through radical togetherness. Against the neoliberal patriarchal-racializing-capitalism’s politics of death, there resurface forces that produce politics of care, of the encounter, feeding into circuits of affects through art, agroecology, seed library, sprout cells and guerrilla gardening.