A Tactical History of World-Building(s): IV Castellanos’s Homage to an Activist Tripod
A Tactical History of World-Building(s): IV Castellanos’s Homage to an Activist Tripod

Summary/Abstract: This paper tests theoretical tools developed to frame social construction, historicization,and speech-action as performance on IV Castellanos’s social sculpture Homage to anActivist Tripod. How can one say that a temporary, collective, non-representation yet intentionalcollective performance matters to and as ‘world history’? What constructive agencies dodifferent theoretical frameworks provide performance-as-art and other Othered and otherwise‘non-productive’ world-building practices? Written from the perspective of a participantin the performance, which paid homage to water and land protectors, the structure of thispaper builds analogies between theorization and task-based performance, between theoreticalspaces and political action, demanding structural integrity and ethical coherence within andbetween constructivities.

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