Activism is a critical point of contention for institutions and genealogies of contemporary art around the world. Yet artists have consistently engaged in activist discourse lending their skills to social movements and regularly participating in civil and social rights campaigns whilst simultaneously boycotting cultural institutions and exerting significant pressure on them. From ACT UP and its affiliate groups since the dawn of the AIDS crisis to the mediatised counterspectacle and street theatrics of the socalled Arab Spring and Occupy to ongoing protest movements such as Black Lives Matter Rhodes Must Fall and Decolonize This Place activist aesthetics has proven increasingly difficult to define under traditional classifications.