Jean-Luc Moriceau, Isabela dos Santos Paes. Those invisible threads that tie us together: Jatahy’s cinema theatre. SCOS 2023 : Standing Conference on Organization Symbolism, The American University of Paris; Institut Mines-Télécom Business School (IMT-BS), Jul 2023, Paris, France.

Organization studies provide descriptions and theories in which actors are caught in nets (structure, interest, motives) that determine them. The author’s words order a multiplicity into a coherent whole that gives it one meaning. Some would say that this is the price to pay for constituting knowledge. If this has been avoided for example with non-representational theories (e.g. Thrift, Lorimer) or other forms of writing (e.g. Kostera); in this presentation we would like to think from some lessons learned through the work of the Brazilian playwright/director Christiane Jatahy. Her work can be seen as a haute couture between reality and fiction, theatre and cinema, actors and characters, freedom and determinism. In an interview she said: “I sew a dramaturgy of invisibility”. Her work might be an opportunity to explore the possibilities of many intersections and in-betweens, the weft and the warp, as well as their ethical and political implications.