A plural and fair space for all artists, of all origins, is what the DesconfinArte podcast offers

Whether you have a follower or thousands, this podcast wants to be fair to all new artists or cultural managers who are looking for an alternative space to decompress, or ‘deconfine’, their most recent ideas or projects, as the population also physically and socially He leaves behind the confinements due to the covid19 and finds himself again.

That is the spirit of the episodes of DisconfinArt, a space for face-to-face interviews of infograma.net, a digital medium that was born during the pandemic to disseminate cultural and political issues of Ecuador. The initiative is a plus for the content that is hosted on that website, as well as a strategy so that the audience can experience these new encounters between journalists and artists, as well as their reflections on artistic, cultural or media work.

“During the pandemic, the cultural industry was hit, like all industries, but the artists never stopped being that contention through streaming, they continued to accompany us during this time,” illustrates the communicator Jorge Franco, part of the Infograma staff and presenter from the podcast.

He continues: “Now we can reconnect with them, with their art and what they have been working on during this time, above all to break the fear of contact and not lose the conversation … We called it DesconfinArte, because that is what we are experiencing.”

For Franco, this experience in the medium is not entirely new, since he has participated in public and online radio productions. At the moment, he says, the series has delivered 14 chapters, simultaneously on Spotify and YouTube (on InfogramaTV), thanks to the joint work with Javier Ruiz, Carlos Aquino, Gabriela Serrano, Benyamira Rosales, highlights the broadcaster.

“We are not looking for artists who have many likes or followers but for their work, to give them a platform to talk about it. For many of them this is their first experience telling about what they do ”, explains Jorge.

The actor Fabricio Mantilla, the owner of Kruger Bar Eduardo Kruger, the doctor in urban art Mafo López, Sara Arana ‘the rap lawyer’, the cultural manager Adrea Arellano, among other characters, have sat in the DesconfinArte studio. To say of Jorge, they can appear “without poses and without being ‘viral’, the important thing is how they add to society with what they do”.

For this reason, he adds: “We want to be a program with affective responsibility, that is safe, without people with a history of aggression. We do not open the space to people who have complaints about violence ”.