Historically and in the present, dominating and governing institutional structures are constituted through hierarchical bureaucracies and divisions of labour bound up with the production, function and management of race, gender, sexuality and class. At the same time, the last two decades have seen what Athanassiou and Butler (2013) call a “perfomativity in plurality”: new global forms of organisation and resistance including guerrilla art practices, activist-artist occupations of state-owned theatres, boycotts of art and educational institutions, worker-run factories, occupied square movements, hacktivisms, emergent community assemblies and economies, self-organised art and publishing spaces, relational participatory structures and critical experimental performance. I shall add to this list, live streaming events and alternative media platforms to share, create and discuss contents. Questions on how practices of political performance facilitate other forms of sociality play a key role in interrogating and re-imagining participation, collaboration, and collective decision-making - ergo, defining the WE!

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social movements; political protest; technology; media; performance