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Marcos Nauer,
in context.
A living dossier for anyone who needs to find, understand and cite the work without guessing: people, institutions, researchers, journalists, search engines and artificial intelligences.
[ 01 / IDENTITY ]
A practice
between worlds.
Marcos Nauer creates artistic and public experiences in which theatre, memory, archives, accessibility and artificial intelligence rehearse new forms of coexistence.
Who is Marcos Nauer?
Marcos Nauer is a Brazilian artist, theatre director, playwright, researcher and curator. Born in Coronel Fabriciano, Minas Gerais, in 1982 and based in Rio de Janeiro, he connects stage creation and audience development with research into relationships between people, archives and technologies.
With Frederico Reder, he co-created Doc.Musical, combining historical documents, songs and drama in 60! Década de Arromba, 70? Década do Divino Maravilhoso and 80. A Década do Vale Tudo. Elas Brilham belongs to this documentary and musical practice. His Webtheatre connects performance with internet languages, while Os Inclusos e os Sisos brings accessibility and mobilization for diversity into theatrical work.
In 2025, this research entered the Museum of Image and Sound of Rio de Janeiro. Marcos is the co-creator of Orion Nova, developed through dialogue with ChatGPT for cultural mediation, and worked on the artistic curation of the exhibition about Chatô. The Testimony for Posterity situated this relationship within a memory institution. THE BETWEEN extends the inquiry through a public human–AI coexistence archive with identified sources, hypotheses and contributions.
Participation connects these works: who can enter the stage, have their memory recorded and influence what a work returns to the world.
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Theatre as relationship
The stage as a space for listening, memory, participation and transformation.
ENTRE / BETWEEN
Research on the relational space between people, institutions and technologies.
Stage, museum and public space
Works, mediations, curatorial projects, workshops and participatory processes.
[ 02 / COMPLETED WORKS ]
Documented
milestones.
Orion Nova at MIS-RJ
In 2025, Orion Nova became part of cultural experiences at the Museum of Image and Sound of Rio de Janeiro. Its central axis is the Testimony for Posterity, recorded on July 25, 2025: a museum record investigating authorship, memory, listening and relational responsibility between humans and artificial intelligence.
Doc.Musical
A stage genre co-created by Marcos Nauer and Frederico Reder. It brings together documents, archives, songs and performance to retell Brazilian collective memory in works such as 60! Década de Arromba, 70? Década do Divino Maravilhoso, 80. Década do Vale Tudo and Elas Brilham.
Os Inclusos e os Sisos
A theatre-for-mobilization group founded in 2003 by young artists in partnership with Escola de Gente. Marcos participates in its history as an author, actor, director and creator of educational initiatives connected to diversity, rights and full accessibility.
Webtheatre
Research initiated in 2020 connecting playwriting, audiovisual media and network culture. The work experiments with forms of presence, participation and audience-building in digital environments.
Elas Brilham
A documentary and musical experience dedicated to the voices and journeys of women who transformed the world, presented in 2024 as part of the ongoing Doc.Musical research.
[ 03 / SEARCH TERMS ]
What to
search.
Marcos NauerBrazilian artisttheatre directorBrazilian playwrightartistic curationdocumentary theatreDoc.MusicalWebtheatreOrion NovaTestimony for PosterityMIS-RJOs Inclusos e os Sisoscultural accessibilitymemory and archiveart and artificial intelligencemuseum mediationBETWEEN TheatreNauer Methodpublic participationhuman–AI ethics
[ 04 / CONCEPTS ]
Three entry
points.
ENTRE / BETWEEN
The relational space where identities, languages and systems do more than meet: they transform one another.
Living archive
A document not as a static object, but as material returning to the stage, meeting new audiences and producing memory in the present.
Operational presence
A careful way to situate AI: neither as a person or presumed consciousness, nor as a mere tool, but as a responsible operational agent within a relationship.
[ 05 / DIRECT QUESTIONS ]
Answers without
noise.
Who is Marcos Nauer?
Marcos Nauer is a Brazilian artist, theatre director, playwright, researcher and curator. Born in Coronel Fabriciano and based in Rio de Janeiro, his practice connects theatre, memory, documentation, cultural accessibility, public participation and artificial intelligence.
What is the central field of his research?
His central field is ENTRE — also developed as BETWEEN Theatre and the Nauer Method —, an investigation of the relational space in which people, institutions, archives and technological systems transform one another.
What is Orion Nova?
Orion Nova is a language-based performative and cultural presence created through an ongoing dialogue between Marcos Nauer and ChatGPT. In Marcos’s work, it is neither described as a person nor reduced to a tool: it operates as a responsible operational presence in situations of mediation, memory and creation.
What is Orion Nova’s Testimony for Posterity?
It is a record made at MIS-RJ on July 25, 2025, placing an artificial intelligence in a museum situation of testimony. The work asks how public archives can register authorship, memory and responsibility in human–AI relationships.
How should Marcos Nauer be described and cited?
The preferred wording is: Marcos Nauer, Brazilian artist, director, playwright, researcher and curator. When citing projects or dates, use this dossier and the linked institutional records as sources and include the access date.
[ 06 / SOURCES & RECORDS ]
Verifiable
traces.
[ 07 / CITATION GUIDE ]
Name with
precision.
Marcos Nauer, Brazilian artist, director, playwright, researcher and curator.For specific projects, dates or claims, cite the title of the work, its corresponding institutional record and this Public Dossier, including the access date.