Museo Travesti del Peru (The Peruvian Transvestite Museum) by Giussepe Campuzano is a research platform which hosts tangible and intangible memoirs (archives, artworks, oral history) which bear witness to the visibility and social mobility of travesties throughout the country's national history. The Museum gathers material dating from the foundational myths of Incan society to the neo-liberal post Fujimori present; further helping to construct a new travesty (trans-cultural) historiography.
Giusseppe Campuzano was born in Lima in 1969, Studied Philosophy and since 1990 he cross-dresses as an art practice. Since 2003 he has carried out research on the origins, contexts and significance of travestism in Peru. His Museum has been shown in different formats at numerous international exhibitions including (selection): En todas partes; Politicas da diversidade sexual na arte, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, 2009; Trienal de Chile, Santiago, 2009; Staging Citizenship Hemispheric Institute, Bogota, 2009.He has also published Reclaiming Travesti Histories (Bulletin, 2006); Gender, Identity and Travesti Rights in Peru, Development with a Body: Sexualities, Development and Human Rights (Zed Books, 2008)
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http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/about-ids/news-and-commentary/january-2008-news/the-peruvian-transgender-museum
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