Abstract

DEL MARMOL, Mariana. Between desire, friendship and precariousness. Artistic work and cultural activism in La Plata independent theater production. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2020, n.51, pp.169-188. ISSN 1850-275X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/cas.i51.7950.

This article characterizes the ways actors and actresses make a living in the independent theatre scene of the city of La Plata. The members of this group are proud of producing plays with limited state support and little remuneration. The paper examines native views on the role of desire, friendship, and cultural activism, in tension with perspectives that challenge these aspects and point out that they contribute to the self-precarization of artistic work and make it functional to the mechanisms of neoliberal capitalism. From a perspective that highlights the value of the ethnographic approach, I hold that many of the contradictions illuminated by these practices make up, in the daily experiences of people, a framework that articulates different regimes of value. In addition, it is in this complex articulation that actors and actresses from the city of La Plata make theater their livelihood.

Keywords : Artistic work; Cultural activism; (self)precarization; Making a living; Independent theater.

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