Sobre “lo independiente” y “lo estatal” en las artes escénicas platenses (2011-2021). Demanda, tensión y participación

Abstract

The objective of this article is to describe and analyze the representations and reciprocal views between the workers of the independent theater performance of the city of La Plata and the State institutions. To address this objective, we have analyzed from a qualitative perspective, the origins of independent theater in Argentina, the social representations that independent actors and actresses build about their link with the State, and the cultural visions and policies that the State applies to the sector, observing the continuities and displacements in these relationships from the emergency situation that generated the COVID 19 pandemic. We find that the relationship between independent theater performers and state entities is crossed by different representations that subjects build on their activity understood as work and the lack of cultural policies that are adapted to the labor reality of this sector, which generates complex links of tension, demand and participation.