“O papel da fábrica” (En: “The role of the factory”) is a performative approach to two original texts about the relationship with work. The first text, “To be able to say we are with you work is all we ask for” narrates an infatuated epistolary exchange between an I and the idea of work. This text was inspired by Gilbert & George’s 1970’s piece “To be with art is all we ask.” The second text (with the homonymous title) “The role of the factory” instigates reflection about the shifts of contemporary work, the sites of labor and the typologies of labor through the use of auto-ethnographic references. The project focuses aspects of a textual, performative, documentation, spectatorship and narrational nature.