TROCA-TROCAS: ENCONTRO RIO DE JANEIRO

Rio de Janeiro | 25 and 26 November, 2009

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Troca-trocas is a two-day series of public talks in Rio de Janeiro with artist and curators from Latin America, whom in their practice deal with dissident sexualities and their context-specific cultural significance.

At a historical moment where the Gay International’s globalizing formats of ethics and identification - such as "Gay pride" and "LGBT” as a uniforming label - are adopted in different local contexts around the world, troca-trocas deals with practices that deal with the construction of gender and sexuality in the public sphere in a micro-political experience.

“Troca-trocas” is Portuguese for "exchanges". In the male gay slang of Brazil it refers to "fucking equally", where he who receives also gives and he who gives also receives. However, in the general Brazilian slang, "troca-trocas" also describes the experiences of sexual discovery and experimentation during childhood.

25-26 November, 2009 (18h-20h)
Centro Latino-Americano em Sexualidade e Direitos Humanos
Universidade Estatal do Rio de Janeiro
www.clam.org.br

With the kind support of:

Giussepe Campuzano

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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)

Link:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/about-ids/news-and-commentary/january-2008-news/the-peruvian-transgender-museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8hjIMTQ21Q

Victor Manuel Rodriguez

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© Miguel Angel Rojas, Faenza 1978

Scholar, cultural agent and curator based in Bogota. He served as the City’s cultural chancellor for five years. Trained in Art History at Goldsmith's University of London, he earned his Phd degree on Cultural Studies at Rochester University, having Queer Studies Professor Douglas Crimp as his thesis director.

He has curated numerous exhibitions, those to be acknowledge are Un Caballero no se sienta asi, Galeria Santa Fe, 2003 and Yo no soy esa, Galeria Santa Fe, 2005 which brought to the art field of Colombia questions upon queer representation. He also participates in symposia on GLBT policies, which he has worked with as being part of the local district government. He is currently a Professor and researcher at National University in Colombia.

Maria Galindo

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The artistic-activist practice of Andean femenist María Galindo, challenges directly the racial and social hierarchies that render sexism and homophobia in Bolivia's idiosyncrasy. By means of activism, street performance and television appearances, she has created a true politically engaged practice that takes place in the public sphere.

Galindo is co-founder and director of Mujeres Creando, a feminist organization based in Santa Cruz, Bolivia that seeks justice against physical and symbolic violence to women and homosexuals in Bolivia. The manifesto of Mujeres Creando has also helped understand that indigenous heritage has been violated by a patriarchal oppressive colonial society. It
researches the complex construct of sexuality and gender inequality in a multicultural and multiracial and multilinguistic society like Bolivia’s

Links
http://www.mujerescreando.org/
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa

Pablo Leon de La Barra

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Artist and curator based in London for the past 9 years, where he has developed numerous experimental exhibitions and events dealing with queer and counter-culture. His cult magazine Pablo’s International Magazine, Macho not rough, men art and architecture, is an on-going series of a publications dedicated to homosexuality and its relation with the collective and urban anthropology.

De La Barra has curated To Be Political it Has to Look Nice, Apexart, New York, 2003; Glory Hole, Architecture Foundation, Londres, 2006 and his work has formed part of the exhibitions (selection); Localismos, Mexico City, 2004; Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2005; BMW-9th Baltic Triennial, CAC-Lithuania and ICA-London, 2005; Globos Sonda/Trial Balloons, MUSAC, Leon, 2006 and Nothing Really Matters When You Wear A Big Moustache, Locus, Athens 2006.

For troca-trocas, Pablo León de La Barra will carry out research to publish a new issue of the magazine devoted solely to “men art and architecture” in Rio de Janeiro. For this he also plans to research all Gay porn magazines produced in Brazil during the dictatorship.

Links
www.centrefortheaestheticrevolution.blogspot.com
www.pablointernacionalmagazine.com
www.apexart.org/exhibitions/delabara.htm

Artist-in-residence

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Juan Pablo Echeverri (Colombia, 1978. Lives and works in Bogotá)

Studied his BFA at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and has fulfilled artist-in-residency programs in the UK at Site Gallery and Braziers International. His photographs, films, videos and performances explore and disturb notions of individual identity, image and gender in private fantasies, challenging their representation in the collective. Through reenactment, humor and parody, Echeverri reproduces the celebration of narcissism

His work has been shown at The Fotographer’s Gallery; London 2008, Site Gallery, Sheffield, 2009; Galeria Santa Fe, Bogota; Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá, 2009; Bienal de La Habana, 2009 and forms part of the The Younger than Jesus Artist Directory; New Muesum-Phaidon Press, 2009.