A QUEER LOOK AT VIOLENCE IN THREE CASES OF MEXICAN PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Based on the analysis of three performance pieces – “Buscando a Bruno” by Lukas Avendaño, “Prietty Guoman”, by César Enríquez Cabaret, and “México exhumado”, by Lechedevirgen Trimegisto – this essay proposes to discuss some elements that constitute a queer politics against violence in Mexico. The objective is to understand the proposals of these works as opposed to identity politics, insofar as they focus on the construction of a discourse against violence that affects the entire community, where that artist is both a victim and a spokesperson for the other victims against a common perpetrator: the patriarchal system. In this sense, emphasis is placed on the radical critique of patriarchy from queer performance, transfeminism and pos-porn, where the sexgender dissident is meant as a political subject beyond the agendas of sexual diversity.

Keywords

• violência, performance, queer, méxico, política de identidades