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.
Project Artists: - The Great Collective Cough-In - L.
Bogad - Le Temps d'une Soupe - ATSA - For Freedoms - Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman - Down with Self-Management Re-Booting Ourselves as Feminist Servers - sub Rosa - Journey for Activism and Sustainability Escola de Ativismo - Unstoppable - micha c rdenas, Patrisse Cullors, Chris Head and Edxie Betts - Listen to Black Women - Syrus Marcus Ware - Notes on Sustainable Tools - Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, with Sun Woods - The Mirror Shield Project - Cannupa Hanska Luger - The Human Billboard Project - Leah Decter, with Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action Group About the Author Natalie Alvarez is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Ryerson University's School of Performance, Canada.
Claudette Lauzon is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Cana.
Palgrave Macmillan Sustainable tools for precarious times: performance actions in the americas, hardcover/natalie alvarez
