ABSTRACT
Taking Bruno Latour's book Facing Gaia (2017) as a major frame of reference, this chapter will discuss how in the formation of new assemblages between humans and non-humans, art and cultural practices are not a tool but an existent that, as other existents, performs in its own right. Five examples from the Global South of grassroot resistance movements’ strategies against economic and political hegemonic powers will exemplify how alternative relationalities form “metamorphic zones,” zones of common exchange. These will prove to be more resilient because they have formed bottom-up, out of necessity, in an effort to respond to precarious conditions.
