Transversalidades: políticas públicas e modos de existência de projetos coletivos na interface arte, saúde e cultura

Transversalities: public policies and modes of existence of collective projects at the interface of art, health, and culture

Abstract

The Research Group Production of Subjectivity, Body, Art and Occupational Therapy (PACTO-USP) has fostered encounters and partnerships marked by the long duration of collective practices which, in their many years of construction and experimentation, have sustained spaces of creation and care at the intersections of arts, health and culture. PACTO and its partner collective projects emerged and flourished in the late 1990s and early 2000s, in the context of the re-democratization of Brazilian society, with a development characterized by the promotion of actions that the expansion of public policies encompassed, particularly those in the cultural sector. These efforts crossed the boundaries of the health field, moving toward life and its creative potential. In this article, we review the paths of these encounters and collective constructions in dialogue with public policies in their contributions, weaknesses and challenges. In projects where art, culture and health intermingle, enhancing the capacities to create and act, to think and imagine, forms of resistance to the destruction of the common world are experimented with, both under the support of state policy and outside of it. In these experiments, a fertile vitality invents its own unique ways to sustain the continuity of collective existences.