Abstract
Rooted in the territory of northern Argentina, this performative conference emerges from a region where the systematic extermination of Indigenous communities persists. Conceived as both a manifesto and a spoken act, it acknowledges the revolutionary incapacity to change the world as a whole, shifting focus instead toward transforming the lived realities of those nearby. At its core is the pursuit of an Indigenous utopia, understood not as an impossible dream, but as a critical practice that imagines a space-time beyond heteronormativity. This utopia exists only insofar as it challenges the dominant order, positioning critique as a form of survival, resistance, and collective possibility within a context marked by violence and erasure.
This conference is a journey to recognize the revolutionary incapacity to change the world, in order to focus instead on transforming the realities of the people around us. It searches for an Indigenous utopia, not as something impossible, but as an act that allows us to imagine a space-time beyond heteronormativity; a utopia that can only exist insofar as it is a critique of the dominant order. This manifesto is written and spoken from within its community, in northern Argentina, a region where the extermination of Indigenous communities is a systematic practice.
Citation
Cruz, Tiziano, and Quillay Mendez. 'Noa Night'. Dispossessions in the Americas. https://staging.dia.upenn.edu/en/art/AARG027/

