The Promiscuous Infrastructures of Protest Camps

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The Promiscuous Infrastructures of Protest Camps
Wednesday June 29 @ 6pm
Skol (372 Ste Catherine W., suite 314)
all welcome -- bring food/snacks/drinks to share

From Tahrir Square to Trafalgar Square, from the Puerto del Sol to the streets of Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible and increasingly common feature of social movements' activism across the world. Protest camps are spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state.

As part of its research residency entitled "Promiscuous Infrastructures", Artivistic welcomes Anna Feigenbaum (Creative Resistance Research Network) and her guests to a discussion on protest camps as unique organisational forms comprised of 'promiscuous infrastructures'.  Anna will initiate the conversation by tracing the historical learning processes and (dis-)continuities between social and cultural movements across the world that use protest camping as part of their political mobilisations. She will address four key infrastructures (domestic, action, governance and communication) that can be found across diverse protest camps. Treating these 'promiscuous infrastructures' as threads, she will use them to tie together diverse sets of protest camps to tell stories that take the listener across cultural, political and geographical landscapes of these emergent, often radically democratic political spaces.

Participants 

Anna Feigenbaum is an activist-researcher working as an Assistant Professor of Communications at Richmond the American International University in London. She is an active participant in climate justice, labour, and migrant rights campaigns and a founding member of the Creative Resistance Research Network partnered to Kingston University, London and Eyebeam in New York City. 

Dru Oja Jay is a journalist, editor, web developer, and co-founder of the Media Co-op. He lives in Montreal.

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