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Volume 7, Issue 1-2
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Abstract

This article is intended to reflect on how performance art can be a channel through which play and work intertwine. The authors Sven Lütticken and Erving Goffman are used to support the idea that work and leisure have become indistinguishable and that life has become a generalized performance. It is theorized that art and play have characteristics that antagonize the sphere of work under capitalism. Three performances by the author are presented: is about competition and acceleration in the work environment; is about the invisible and undervalued domestic work and consequently the disparities between men and women in this matter and about the power dynamics involving Mexican workers and American companies.

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Keyword(s): capitalism; competition; game; labour; life; power; repetition
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