Traces of solidarity: performing artists’ efforts against individualisation and isolation during Covid-19 pandemic

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Abstract

This work adds to contemporary debates on individualisation and emerging form of cooperation in precarious and pandemic times by considering the case of Italian performing artists during Spring 2020. Drawing on both traditional and digital ethnography, the analysis considers workers collaborative and intersubjective efforts to challenge exploitative and individualised practices of work. The results show that, despite dominant interpretations of cultural work as an entrepreneurial and solitary project, in a context of extended crisis, fragmented experiences of work can be recomposed, and cooperation can be enacted. In the months that followed Covid-19 outbreak, performing artists’ emotional and affective ties result to be central in exiting social isolation and to project solitary experiences of work into a collective understanding.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-14
Number of pages14
JournalSciences et actions sociales
Volume18
Publication statusPublished - 30 Sept 2022
Externally publishedYes

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