Judith Butler notes

bodies congregate, they move and speak together, and they lay claim to a certain space as public space.

the collective actions collect the space itself, gather the pavement, and animate and organize the architecture.   

assembly and speech reconfigure the materiality of public space, and produce, or reproduce, the public character of that material environment.

bodies in their plurality lay claim to the public, find and produce the public through seizing and reconfiguring the matter of material environments; 

at the same time, those material environments are part of the action, and they themselves act when they become the support for action.

our ideas of action, then, need to be rethought.  No one mobilizes a claim to move and assemble freely without moving and assembling together with others.  It is not individuals who act.  The square and the street are not only the material supports for action, but they themselves are part of any theory of public and corporeal action that we might propose.  

Human action depends upon all sorts of supports – it is always supported action.  Bodies can only persist and act when they are supported, by environments, by nutrition, by work, by modes of sociality and belonging, by networks of interdependency and care.

Bodies are themselves modalities of power. On the one hand, they are productive and performative. On the other hand, they can only persist and act when they are supported.

The material supports for action are not only part of action, but they are also what is being fought about, especially in those cases when the political struggle is about food, employment, mobility, and access to institutions.

this produces a quandary. We cannot act without supports, and yet we must struggle for the supports that allow us to act.

when the body “speaks” politically, it is not only in vocal or written language.  It happens through a performativity of the body that crosses language without ever quite reducing to language. 

we need to understand the bodily dimensions of action, what a body requires, and what a body can do, especially when we must think about bodies together, what holds them there, their conditions of persistence and of power.

this acting together opens up time and space outside and against the temporality and established architecture of the dominant regime, lays claim to materiality, leans into its supports, draws from its supports, in order to rework their functions.  Such an action reconfigures what will be public, and what will be the space of politics.