Public dreaming and the transgression of neo-liberal borders

This article considers how misbehaviour in the form of performative gestures can contest the borders of social and spatial normativity as determined by neo-liberal economic and social policies. At the heart of this discussion is the necessity of public space for democratic debate and imagining possible futures. By explicating the participatory art project, ‘Z’s by the C: A Radical Crafting and Public Napping Project’ and drawing upon a methodology called bubonic tourism, the article argues that not only can the body generate temporary public spaces and infectious modes of operating in the world, but that civic agency can be renewed and subjectivity altered.