Natalie Alvarez, Claudette Lauzon, and Keren Zaiontz, Editors
This collection travels Canada, the US, the US-Mexico border, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and Indigenous territories on Turtle Island. 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 frontlines 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.
Table of Contents
On Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: An Introduction
Natalie Alvarez, Claudette Lauzon, and Keren Zaiontz
INTERVIEW. Protest After Occupy: Rethinking the Repertoires of Left Activism
Micah White, Natalie Alvarez, and Keren Zaiontz
Performative Conduct for Precarious Times
Natalie Alvarez and Keren Zaiontz
PROJECT: The Great Collective Cough-In by L.M. Bogad
Their Dissidence Remains: Lessons from the 2011 Chilean Student Movement
Daniella Wittern Bush
PROJECT: Le Temps d’une Soupe by ATSA
Beyond the Strike: Creative Legacies of the 2012 Quebec Student Protests
Jennifer Beth Spiegel
PROJECT: For Freedoms by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman
‘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
PROJECT: Down with Self-Management! Re-Booting Ourselves as Feminist Servers by subRosa
Your Trash is My Sustenance: Recycling the Image of ‘Waste Pickers’
Carla Melo
PROJECT: Journey for Activism and Sustainability by Escola de Ativismo
8. Sustainable Practices on the US–Mexico border: inSITE_05, Intervention, and Precarious Communities
Jennie Klein
PROJECT: Unstoppable by micha cárdenas, Patrisse Cullors, Chris Head and Edxie Betts
INTERVIEW. Art as Process in Everyday Life
Wilfredo Prieto and Zaira Zarza
PROJECT: Listen to Black Women by Syrus Marcus Ware
‘CAVCA Buries BIACI’: Activating Decolonial Tools in Cartagena de Indias
Martha Herrera-Lasso and Kimberly Skye Richards
PROJECT: Notes on Sustainable Tools by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, with Suné Woods
INTERVIEW. Performance in the Peace Process: Creating Cultural Brigades
Patricia Ariza and Beatriz Pizano
PROJECT: The Mirror Shield Project by Cannupa Hanska Luger
Pimicikimak Sovereignty: Cree Sustainability and Hydroelectric Inundation in Northern Manitoba
Jessica Jacobson-Konefall
PROJECT: The Human Billboard Project by Leah Decter, with Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action Group
INTERVIEW. Already-And: The Art of Indigenous Survivance
Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Natalie Alvarez, and Keren Zaiontz