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Timely and important . . . explores how the combination of online and offline activism, in their interdependence, have helped counter many of the most predatory practices of Neoliberalism. Focusing on instances from the 1990s to the present in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile, the book explores the many different ways in which performance--and particularly performance as/is event--frames these interventions. -Patricia Ybarra, Brown University The concept of 'performance constellations' lends itself to novel forms of materialist analyses that trace the movements of activist actions as they respond to local and transnational economic and political conditions. Fuentes draws dexterously from current theory in performance and digital media studies as well as recent scholarship on neoliberalism, and her firsthand interviews with art-activists offer new insights into performance actions as powerful forms of interventionist art. -Natalie Alvarez, Ryerson University

Timely and important . . . explores how the combination of online and offline activism, in their interdependence, have helped counter many of the most predatory practices of Neoliberalism. Focusing on instances from the 1990s to the present in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile, the book explores the many different ways in which performance--and particularly performance as/is event--frames these interventions. -Patricia Ybarra, Brown University The concept of 'performance constellations' lends itself to novel forms of materialist analyses that trace the movements of activist actions as they respond to local and transnational economic and political conditions. Fuentes draws dexterously from current theory in performance and digital media studies as well as recent scholarship on neoliberalism, and her firsthand interviews with art-activists offer new insights into performance actions as powerful forms of interventionist art. -Natalie Alvarez, Ryerson University The book is a timely reminder that technologies of oppression and capital accumulation are accompanied by an ever-evolving, always-on-the-move repertoire of tactics of solidarity that connects bodies and political struggles in dispersed localities and sociocultural contexts. --The Drama Review--Marlon Jimenez Oviedo The Drama Review (9/1/2020 12:00:00 AM) Fuentes convincingly presents performances that collectively take over public space as an effective activist tool and one of the most radical forms of political action. --CHOICE--M. Becker CHOICE (7/20/2020 12:00:00 AM)

The concept of 'performance constellations' lends itself to novel forms of materialist analyses that trace the movements of activist actions as they respond to local and transnational economic and political conditions. Fuentes draws dexterously from current theory in performance and digital media studies as well as recent scholarship on neoliberalism, and her firsthand interviews with art-activists offer new insights into performance actions as powerful forms of interventionist art. -Natalie Alvarez, Ryerson University Timely and important . . . explores how the combination of online and offline activism, in their interdependence, have helped counter many of the most predatory practices of Neoliberalism. Focusing on instances from the 1990s to the present in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile, the book explores the many different ways in which performance--and particularly performance as/is event--frames these interventions. -Patricia Ybarra, Brown University

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Marcela A. Fuentes is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies, Northwestern University.

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