What, where, and when to manifest: Contentious politics and prefigurative politics
Analysis of indigenous social movements focuses on their public manifesations and manifestos, revealing an aspect of the world that advances certain agendas. Exploring the choreographies of these movments, Briones introduces a distinction between contientious politics and prefigurative politics, and examines their archives and repetoires of struggle.
From June 21 to 28, 2014, scholars, artists, activists and students will unite in Montreal to investigate the aesthetic, social, and choreographic techniques that transform political ideas into collective images, through actions, embodied utterances and ways of being.