This collection promises to be a cornerstone in the field of
performance studies and human rights activism. By mixing scholarly
chapters with artists' manifestos or "interruptions" it promotes
the idea of the collective work between academia and social
movements. Not only is it very timely, theoretically savvy, and
well written, it also brings together scholars, activists, artists,
and artivists in a very fluid, collective approach, something many
of us strive to do." - Paola S. Hernandez, University of Wisconsin,
USA 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. Winner of the
Excellence in Editing Award from the Association for Theatre in
Higher Education and recipient of an Honourable Mention for the
Patrick O'Neill Prize administered by the Canadian Association for
Theatre Research. Project Artists:- The Great Collective Cough-In -
L.M. 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 - subRosa - Journey for
Activism and Sustainability Escola de Ativismo - Unstoppable -
micha cardenas, Patrisse Cullors, Chris Head and Edxie Betts -
Listen to Black Women - Syrus Marcus Ware - Notes on Sustainable
Tools - Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, with Sune Woods - The Mirror
Shield Project - Cannupa Hanska Luger - The Human Billboard Project
- Leah Decter, with Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action
Group
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