ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I connect an expanded view on political ecology (Latour 2004, 2007) with a changing role of art and activism. Current ecological thinking links the environmental with a reflection on the psychic production of subjectivity and social relations (Guattari 2000). Ecology for that matter investigates whether the environment is experienced as ‘home’ – a safe place to dwell for every one of us. As a diplomat of dissensus, contemporary artist and activist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia maintains a particular relation with ‘her’ public and with ‘public’ space, reshuffling the tradition of interactive theatre in the performing arts. Her Urban Action Clinic GARDEN (2015) hence accounts for a new mode of eco-activism, with diplomats of dissensus and composite bodies engaged in intra-action.
