Podcast Sexagenarte – A Vida Não Para: Audio drama creations with old people in the pandemic
R. Teixeira, S. Weber
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AbstractThis research aims to present the process of creating the audiodrama podcast entitled Sexagenarte - A Vida Não Para (Sexagenart - Life Does Not Stop). It is a project developed virtually, together with eight older people, during the most critical period of the pandemic in Brazil. Among so many consequences, the pandemic generated the social isolation of the world population, with greater vehemence for the older population. The loss of conviviality limited interpersonal interactions, transforming virtual platforms into inviting techno-convivial environments to experience artistic-digital inclusion actions with the older adults, as is the case of the presented study. In the last decade, Brazil has become one of the largest podcast producers and consumers in the world (VOXNEST, 2020). Among the most relevant productions, audio dramas stand out, sound objects similar to old radio plays (SPRITZER, 2005). In this art scene, the eight “new old bodies” (WEBER, et al, 2020) that make up the podcast Sexagenart lend their voices to narrate, through eight episodes of original audio drama, some auto fictional memories of their own biographies.Keywords: audio drama, memory, elderly, technology, COVID-19
R. Teixeira, S. Weber (2022). Podcast Sexagenarte – A Vida Não Para: Audio drama creations with old people in the pandemic. Gerontechnology, 21(s),3-3
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.560.3.sp4