Transvestite Museum of Peru as Fictional Archeology for Rediscovering Denied Corporeities

Abstract

The ideas that I intend to present explore the binary pattern in some of its layers and frameworks (bodies and heteronormative mandate; thought; political hierarchies; its performativity) and the possible strategies to escape from it, starting from the trajectory by a creative archaeological methodology, although purposely bordering on the fictional, recognizable in the complex proposal of the Transvestite Museum of Peru of the philosopher, artist and transvestite Giuseppe Campuzano.

I am interested in the possibility of politicizing the imaginary through the valorization of artistic approaches such as that of Campuzano, to incite historical displacements against the grain of the dominant narrative, trying to identify seminal aspects of the heteropatriarchal system in the regulations implemented by the colonial invasion in the experience of our Latin American context, our corporeities and their intersections, which was later prolonged by the Nation-state, in a reproduction that continues to be embedded in our daily lives with nefarious consequences for those existences located outside the margins of masculinity.