Devenir muxe: torsiones desobedientes de Lukas Avendaño en Réquiem para un alcaraván y en Buscando a Bruno

This article presents an analysis of Lukas Avendaño’s Réquiem para un alcaraván, presented at Centro Cultural Rojas of Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2012. As the play occurred during the last release presentation of El Teje. Primer periódico travesti latinoamericano, the crossings and turnings of a...

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Main Author: Guillermina Bevacqua
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Language:English
Published: Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique Latine 2022-03-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/orda/7013
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description This article presents an analysis of Lukas Avendaño’s Réquiem para un alcaraván, presented at Centro Cultural Rojas of Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2012. As the play occurred during the last release presentation of El Teje. Primer periódico travesti latinoamericano, the crossings and turnings of a sector of the transvestite/ trans movement in the city of Buenos Aires and the muxe zapoteca community that Avendaño represents. On the other side, on May 10th 2018 his brother Bruño Avendaño was disappeared, joining his name to a long list of Mexican people which are victims of state and non-state violence. As a way to denounce the lack of answers from the legal system and the government, Lukas Avendaño made the performance Buscando a Bruno. In both plays the performer establishes a political gesture through which he turns his autobiographical experience into a collective act, to subscribe to Emilio Santiesteban’s (2008) frequently mentioned phrase that echoes in the Mexican activism of today and its’ art practices: “What place does an art of the body have in a country of disappeared bodies?”
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spelling doaj-art-b76feb241faa4a98ac7b6e8656396dbc2025-08-20T03:15:39ZengInstitut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique LatineL'Ordinaire des Amériques2273-00952022-03-0122810.4000/orda.7013Devenir muxe: torsiones desobedientes de Lukas Avendaño en Réquiem para un alcaraván y en Buscando a BrunoGuillermina BevacquaThis article presents an analysis of Lukas Avendaño’s Réquiem para un alcaraván, presented at Centro Cultural Rojas of Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2012. As the play occurred during the last release presentation of El Teje. Primer periódico travesti latinoamericano, the crossings and turnings of a sector of the transvestite/ trans movement in the city of Buenos Aires and the muxe zapoteca community that Avendaño represents. On the other side, on May 10th 2018 his brother Bruño Avendaño was disappeared, joining his name to a long list of Mexican people which are victims of state and non-state violence. As a way to denounce the lack of answers from the legal system and the government, Lukas Avendaño made the performance Buscando a Bruno. In both plays the performer establishes a political gesture through which he turns his autobiographical experience into a collective act, to subscribe to Emilio Santiesteban’s (2008) frequently mentioned phrase that echoes in the Mexican activism of today and its’ art practices: “What place does an art of the body have in a country of disappeared bodies?”https://journals.openedition.org/orda/7013muxestransvestitessocio-sexual movementsart activismsautobiographical practices
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Devenir muxe: torsiones desobedientes de Lukas Avendaño en Réquiem para un alcaraván y en Buscando a Bruno
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muxes
transvestites
socio-sexual movements
art activisms
autobiographical practices
title Devenir muxe: torsiones desobedientes de Lukas Avendaño en Réquiem para un alcaraván y en Buscando a Bruno
title_full Devenir muxe: torsiones desobedientes de Lukas Avendaño en Réquiem para un alcaraván y en Buscando a Bruno
title_fullStr Devenir muxe: torsiones desobedientes de Lukas Avendaño en Réquiem para un alcaraván y en Buscando a Bruno
title_full_unstemmed Devenir muxe: torsiones desobedientes de Lukas Avendaño en Réquiem para un alcaraván y en Buscando a Bruno
title_short Devenir muxe: torsiones desobedientes de Lukas Avendaño en Réquiem para un alcaraván y en Buscando a Bruno
title_sort devenir muxe torsiones desobedientes de lukas avendano en requiem para un alcaravan y en buscando a bruno
topic muxes
transvestites
socio-sexual movements
art activisms
autobiographical practices
url https://journals.openedition.org/orda/7013
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