Young people in quarantine: looks and proposals from art and communication

Abstract

All artistic work is a producer of sense. Sixty-seven videos produced by Bolivian youth on the pandemic and quarantine have allowed to take an social x-ray of what they experienced, they felt and thought about the health crisis situa- tion, lockdown and social distancing. Video clips, fiction dramas and do- cumentaries were deconstructed to build a representative collective dis- course,as proposed by the semiologist French Jacques Derrida. The pandemic and the quarantine, with its direct consequences (illness, con- finement and infoxication) and indi- rect (uncertainty, fear, anxiety and de- pression), they have reconfigured our lives, redirected our priori- ties and creating a new normal. That’s what the young people say.