A Tactical History of World-Building(s): IV Castellanos’s Homage to an Activist Tripod

This paper tests theoretical tools developed to frame social construction, historicization, and speech-action as performance on IV Castellanos’s sculpture Homage an Activist Tripod. How can one say that a temporary, collective, non-representation yet intentional collective matters ‘world history’? What constructive agencies do different frameworks provide performance-as-art other Othered otherwise ‘non-productive’ world-building practices? Written from the perspective of participant in performance, which paid homage water land protectors, structure this builds analogies between theorization task-based spaces political action, demanding structural integrity ethical coherence within constructivities.