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«[I am] Patria, the stateless one» ([Soy] Patria, la apátrida), said Giuseppe Campuzano in his transvestite identity, and with this sentence he initiated his final decision to rewrite the history of his country from the perspective of a transvestite. The study of performativities and transvestite identities as understood by Campuzano consists of «conducting an archaeology of makeup and a philosophy of bodies in order to propose an elaboration of metaphors that is more productive than any exclusive cataloguing.» (Campuzano, 2009) From this perspective, we can conduct a study that analyzes transvestite performativities in postcolonial Hispanic America as strategies of resistance in the artistic and social scene.
In this seminar, students will have their first contact with the panorama of transvestite and drag performance practices in Latin America (Museo Travesti del Perú, Lukas Avendaño, la Chola Chabuca, Elektra Trash, Mimosa Wasted, Opera Periférica, among others). They will then analyze various concepts of the drag scene such as «transvestite identities», «drag performance», «transvestite institutions», «drag activism», etc. Finally, they will critically discuss concepts such as «espacios mestizos» [Mestizo spaces] (Andalzúa, 1999) and «apertura ontológica» [ontological openness] (De la Cadena, 2018), «decolonization», and «cultural hegemony» in theater practice and research. Students will reflect on drag identities from a theatrical, performative, and artistic perspective, as well as their impact on the sociocultural and media landscape. |
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