The presentation will take the form of a lecture performance addressing questions of agency, citizenship, and poetic resistance within today’s global environment. The presentation will draw from a number of key references, including: a series of paintings produced by detainees held at Guantanamo Bay; an informal community theater run out of a house in the city of Curitiba; and the Letter from Manus Island written by Behrouz Boochani. Following Boochani’s suggestion that writing is “an act of resistance”, the presentation will work at unsettling normative understandings of citizenship as a form of membership; instead, citizenship will be highlighted as an act – one of writing, of performativity, and of dispossession: a giving away. The presentation will additionally consider in what ways artistic practice and research relates to acts of citizenship: is it possible to speak of “artistic citizenship” as what works at forms of “aesthetic justice”? What types of alliances and responsibilities does artistic citizenship suggest or provoke? Extending from the questions, the presentation will aim for an affective intervention onto the political imagination of citizenship.