Una investigación teatral y fílmica sobre el trabajo

Algunas obras de Gerardo Naumann

Authors

  • Sandra Contreras Universidad Nacional de Rosario-CONICET

Keywords:

nonproductive labor, Workers/performers, New Argentine Film and Theatre, Gerardo Naumann

Abstract

This paper is a reading of Gerardo Naumann’s plays and films shown as a theatrical and performative investigation into the world of labor (his plays Los trabajos improductivos andFábrica,and his films El trabajo industrial and Ricardo Bar). Our approach is based on three hypotheses:  1) Naumann's nonproductive labors (stealing, acting) explore and exhibit virtuosity—i.e. the articulation between memory, repetition and the use of words--as a field of experimentation; 2) by displacing performers from their social location (their status of workers, indistrial or nonproductive workers), Nauman’s theatrical experimentation with the worker-performers’ voices is both a political experimentation as well as an inquiry into new forms of community and subjectivation; 3) Naumann's vital involvement in his own performances playing a worker establishes a frame of reference so that the exploration of the world of labor becomes the (ambivalent) register of the “bargaining” position of artists with non-actors, nonproductive workers, and worker actors.

Published

2019-05-06

How to Cite

Contreras, S. (2019). Una investigación teatral y fílmica sobre el trabajo: Algunas obras de Gerardo Naumann. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 16(3), 206–220. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1911

Issue

Section

Dossier: El cuerpo del trabajo: Fuerza