ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the performative encounter and argues for its political potential. It also argues for an important shift in the relationship between activists/artists and their audiences/participants. The paradox and the space within it have been found in a transversal form of creative political intervention, the performative encounter. The paradox is that it is a form whose modes and dispositions are aesthetic and political, complicit with capitalism and antagonistic toward it, inclusionary and exclusionary; the encounter is neither one nor the other but different times, in different ways. The transversal element of the performative encounter underpins its transformative potential. This potential is found when the encounter is considered as an act of creative civil disobedience, which provides a means to address the separation between activism/art and the public, and to reinvigorate practices of political dissidence.
