This book charts the changing frontiers of activism in the Americas. Travelling Canada, the US, the US-Mexico border, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and Indigenous territories on Turtle Island, it invites readers to identify networks, clusters, and continuities of art-activist tactics designed to exceed the event horizon of the performance protest. Essays feature Indigenous artists engaging in land-based activism and decolonial cyberactivism, grass-roots movements imagining possible futures through cross-sector alliance building, art-activists forwarding tactics of reinvention, and student groups in the throes of theatrical assembly. Artist pages, interspersed throughout the collection, serve as animated, first-person perspectives of those working on the front lines of interventionist art. Taken together, the contributions offer a vibrant picture of emergent tactics and strategies over the past decade that allow art-activists to sustain the energy and press of political resistance in the face of a whole host of rights emergencies across the Americas.
Author(s): Natalie Alvarez, Claudette Lauzon, Keren Zaiontz
Series: Contemporary Performance InterActions
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 344
Tags: Performing Arts, Activist Performance, Global Activism, Performance Interventions, Performance Studies, Social Justice, Social Movements
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
On Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: An Introduction (Natalie Alvarez, Claudette Lauzon, Keren Zaiontz)....Pages 1-25
INTERVIEW Protest After Occupy: Rethinking the Repertoires of Left Activism (Micah White, Natalie Alvarez, Keren Zaiontz)....Pages 27-40
Performative Conduct for Precarious Times (Natalie Alvarez, Keren Zaiontz)....Pages 41-67
Their Dissidence Remains: Lessons from the 2011 Chilean Student Movement (Daniella Wittern Bush)....Pages 69-93
Beyond the Strike: Creative Legacies of the 2012 Quebec Student Protests (Jennifer Beth Spiegel)....Pages 95-121
‘After the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?’ Cartoneros and Sanmen in the Age of Financial Crises (Jimena Ortuzar)....Pages 123-149
Your Trash Is My Sustenance: Recycling the Image of ‘Waste Pickers’ (Carla Melo)....Pages 151-175
Sustainable Practices on the US–Mexico Border: inSITE_05, Intervention, and Precarious Communities (Jennie Klein)....Pages 177-201
INTERVIEW Art as Process in Everyday Life (Wilfredo Prieto, Zaira Zarza)....Pages 203-221
‘CAVCA Buries BIACI’: Activating Decolonial Tools in Cartagena de Indias (Martha Herrera-Lasso Gonzalez, Kimberly Skye Richards)....Pages 223-246
INTERVIEW Performance in the Peace Process: Creating Cultural Brigades (Patricia Ariza, Beatriz Pizano)....Pages 247-261
Pimicikimak Sovereignty: Cree Sustainability and Hydroelectric Inundation in Northern Manitoba (Jessica Jacobson-Konefall)....Pages 263-287
INTERVIEW Already-And: The Art of Indigenous Survivance (Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Natalie Alvarez, Keren Zaiontz)....Pages 289-302
Back Matter ....Pages 303-343
