Tactical Carnival: Social Movements, Public Space, and Dialogical Performance

Writing
Written By L.M. Bogad

A Boal Companion“Tactical Carnival:  Social Movements, Public Space and Dialogical Performance,” in A Boal Companioneds. Jan Cohen-Cruz and Mady Schutzman.  London: Routledge Press, 2006:  46-58.Why demonstrate?  What is the different between occupying space and opening space in social movement mass demonstrations?  What role can creative performance, irony, satire, and carnival play in rejuvenating and galvanizing social movements?

L.M. Bogad

Bogad writes, performs, and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Yes Men, Agit-Pop, 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.

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