Tactical Performance: Serious Play and Social Movements

by Larry Bogad

Overview

Tactical Performance tells fun, mischievous stories of underdogs speaking mirth to power - through creative, targeted activist performance in the streets of cities around the world.

This compelling, inspiring book also provides the first ever full-length practical and theoretical guide to this work. L.M.Bogad, one of the most prolific practitioners and scholars of this genre, shares the most effective non-violent tactics and theatrics employed by groups which have captured the public imagination in recent years.

Tactical Performance explores carnivalesque protest in unique depth, looking at the possibilities for direct action and sometimes shocking confrontation with some of the most powerful institutions in the world.

It is essential reading for anyone interested in creative pranksterism and the global justice movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317422204
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/26/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	324
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

L.M.Bogad is Associate Professor of Theatre at UC Davis.

He is an author, performer and the founding director of the Center for Political Activism/West Coast.

He writes, performs and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Yes Men, Billionaires for Bush and La Pocha Nostra. He is a veteran of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Laboratory, and a co-founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. His produced plays have covered topics such as the Haymarket Square Riot, the FBI’s COINTELPRO activities, the Pinochet coup in Chile and global climate chaos.

Table of Contents

Introduction A Red Carpet on the Picket Line: Tactical Performance

1 Tactical Carnival: Dialogism and Social Movements

2 Clownfrontation and Clowndestine Maneuvers: the Clown Army and the Irresistible Image

3 Reclaim the Streets: Tactical Interaction and the Urban Mallification/Mollification in New York City

4 Breaking Conventions, Breaking into Conventions (From the WTO to WTF?)

5 Critical Simulacra and Tricknology: Oil Enforcement Agents, Yes Men, and Survivaballs

6 All the News We Hope to Print: The Creation and Mass Distribution of Progressive Prank Papers

7 Crisis in Califorlornia: Creative Protest at the University of California

Conclusion Earning Moments for the Movement