ARTIST'S SELF-CRITIQUE: ALIENATION AND EXPERIENCE OF ART AS WORK
Alienation; Emancipation; Experience; Artist-workers; Directed self-criticism.
Human labor is limited in its potential development when determined by the amalgams of capitalism that tends to fragment the subject-labor relationship, making it alienated. In the artist who recognizes art as a work, alienation implies the generation of the work of art that, when shaped by consumer interests, becomes an instrument for maintaining alienations. This Thesis aims to analyze the experience of the artist-worker and how the processes of alienation interfere with the development of the artistic work known mainly by the creative dimension. From Historical-cultural Psychology we appropriate the systemic unit of Experience (Perejivânie) to identify the subject's reference field. Thus, we carried out: I) Theoretical intersection between the concepts of alienation-emancipation-experience, in which a dialectical interference was found, because both constructs take place in the daily reality of the subject. II) We extract the categories of analysis: continuity-discontinuity, production-reproduction and individuality-collectivity; III) We developed directed Self-criticism, methodological and interventional framework, which demonstrated coherence with the investigated field capable of capturing the problems and provoking processes of consciousness in the participating subjects. Then, we analyzed the experience of three active artists-workers with an extensive career in the performing arts, submitted to the two stages of directed Self-criticism: brief semi-structured interview and artist-work confrontation. In this route we locate the processes of alienation-emancipation within the experience of each one, verifying the changes, permanence and consequences of the choices about themselves and others in direct relation to the reality of their work. It is understood the occurrence of emancipation processes - although they are configured as transitory, they present displacements from the initial alienating state allowing new experiences. The interventional character of the method is evident, as an experience, by raising processes of awareness about work and allowing the glimpse of potential creative actions. From the methodological proposal, a material was formalized that encompasses our objectives, presenting analytical possibilities of other orders, thus emphasizing the interdisciplinary scope of directed Self-criticism.