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. Hernández 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
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
