In Performing Resistance (2025), I documented how artists and activist groups in Argentina use the performing arts to engage with political movements. With funding from the Fulbright Association, I compiled an oral history featuring the voices of contemporary Argentine artists, activists, and scholars. I published a series of articles in The Brooklyn Rail, Lux Magazine, and elDiarioAR. In December 2025, I presented the project at La Tribu Mostra, an LGBTQ+ bar and community radio in Buenos Aires. The archive at Memoria Abierta, an alliance of human rights organizations, agreed to house the interviews.

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El proyecto Resistencia performática (2025) es fruto de un año de investigación sobre el rol de las artes escénicas y la performance en la lucha colectiva argentina. Compilé una historia oral con voces de artistxs, activistxs y investigadorxs que se presentó en diciembre de 2025 en un evento en La Tribu Mostra. También se publicaron varios artículos en medios argentinos y estadounidenses. Las entrevistas están archivadas en Memoria Abierta.

“A Collective Heartbeat” or How To Be an Anti-Fascist: a Day Spent Marching with Argentine “artivist” collective FindeUNmundO, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2025

“The simplicity of repeating the sequence facilitates some other type of presence, as though we’re elated by sheer effort. Against all odds, we’re moving successfully as one body, adaptable, incredibly resilient. In rehearsal, Caro Fernández, one of FUNO’s founding members, spoke about this collective movement as a manner of “constructing antifascism”: learning how to be in the street as one political body at a time when we’re so divided. Learning how to be two hundred hearts beating together.”

In Conversation with ASAMBLEA DESVIADA, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2025.

Between sips of mate, the trio reflected on the Deviant Procession, the group’s artistic processes more broadly, and the extra cautions needed in the current climate of repression. It felt important to speak to them during a parallel wave of repression in the US under Trump, especially considering Argentina’s recent lived experience with dictatorship. “Here in Argentina, there is a very strong history of activism for human rights and historical memory, as a way of not forgetting the terrifying events that ravaged our country,” Tama Kallsen said. “If you were born after the return of democracy, you learn it is necessary to be an activist in order to transform reality.”

“I’m very committed to forms of political imagination that can emerge in that collective willingness to try out other ways of being in the street. It makes me think of the feminist movement. Specifically, that long night in 2018 waiting to see what would happen with the abortion legalization law the first time it was voted on, when it was voted down. Throughout that long night, people stayed up together, sustaining each other, all together without letting go.”