ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how the transition from spectator to constituent takes place, proposing that what underpins it is a transversal movement ascribed to the performative encounter as a tactic of guerilla communications/tactical media/radical aesthetics. The chapter takes up some of those terms to consider the performative encounter as a transversal and collaborative phenomenon of resistance, one that can expand the potential for action. The performative encounter is a transversal form that bespeaks a politics of desire. It is a fragmentary venture, a risky initiative, a trial and error experiment. It is thus a form that remains at the peripheries of political theorization and action and as such, it does not arrive with an already invested legitimacy. It is a transversal between politics and art, and this collective ontology that performative encounters can generate to make visible and fracture normative discourses of agency.
