Global Activism

Documenting and describing the emerging “performative democracy,” the first new art form of the twenty-first century. Today political protest often takes the form of spontaneous, noninstitutional, mass action. Mass protests during the Arab Spring showed that established systems of power-in that case, the reciprocal support among Arab dictators and Western democracies-can be interrupted, at least for a short moment in history. These new activist movements often use online media to spread their…