Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times
Performance Actions in the Americas
Editors: Alvarez, Natalie, Lauzon, Claudette, Zaiontz, Keren (Eds.)
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- About this book
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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.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 cárdenas, Patrisse Cullors, Chris Head and Edxie Betts
- Listen to Black Women – Syrus Marcus Ware- Notes on Sustainable Tools – Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, with Suné Woods
- The Mirror Shield Project – Cannupa Hanska Luger
- The Human Billboard Project – Leah Decter, with Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action Group
- About the authors
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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, Canada.
Keren Zaiontz is Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Film and Media and the Cultural Studies Graduate Program at Queen’s University, Canada.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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On Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: An Introduction
Pages 1-25
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INTERVIEW Protest After Occupy: Rethinking the Repertoires of Left Activism
Pages 27-40
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Performative Conduct for Precarious Times
Pages 41-67
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Their Dissidence Remains: Lessons from the 2011 Chilean Student Movement
Pages 69-93
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Beyond the Strike: Creative Legacies of the 2012 Quebec Student Protests
Pages 95-121
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times
- Book Subtitle
- Performance Actions in the Americas
- Editors
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- Natalie Alvarez
- Claudette Lauzon
- Keren Zaiontz
- Series Title
- Contemporary Performance InterActions
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-11557-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-11557-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-11556-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 343
- Number of Illustrations
- 24 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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