On the occasion of the ↗︎ International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), 31 March 2024 — Easter Sunday — we are deeply honoured to announce and give space to our new collaborator (although someone we’ve been familiar with for years and yearning to know better): P0RN0T0PIAcollective. Thought and pleasure is being served. Enjoy!
“If the cishetero–patriarchal–colonial structure is integrated and functioning in the spaces we inhabit, infiltrating the social context of stage performances, it is urgent to take transgenderism as an experience of civil disobedience. An attitude, a political–sensitive–aesthetic position of non-submission to all those architectures organized by a global design of violence, ↗︎ as described by Jota Mombaça. So, if the ‘power machines’ (Mombaça, 2016) created by such a global design serve to control and shape our spaces of coexistence, we want to assume, as necessary and imperative, the disarticulation of this hegemonic scheme. We want to disrupt the economy of violence that wants us disciplined, tamed, paying rent, and distracted by the nefarious task of pleasing and entertaining. We break with this boring white bourgeois aesthetic that manufacturers eternally sleepy spectators who conventionally assume to be safe in the darkness of the theater. Why, in this case, would this public place be a safe one, if no such thing exists for us?”
Images from P0RN0T0PIAcollective, ↗︎ g0g0te0. Photos by ↗︎ karlota.
↗︎ P0RN0T0PIAcollective proposes itself as an open collective of direct action through performance, discursive and political development and collective elaboration of desire-discomfort. We continue to investigate strategies of openness in the processes of collectivisation with the fervent aim of nurturing and strengthening the dissident networks of the contexts with which we dialogue. We are ↗︎ Axel, ↗︎ Barbra Boustier, ↗︎ Kha Villanueva, ↗︎ Kil Fema, and ↗︎ Lyn Diniz.
Much warmth and gratitude to family ↗︎ Danja Burchard for introducing us.
