pachaqueer
“Travestis del Infierno”
Profane rituals of monstrosity
Spectral speculative performance by PachaQueer, combining lyrical witchcraft and cabaret rebellion to induce sensorial repositories of discomfort and militancy.
A denuncia of social inequalities, TRAVESTIS DEL INFIERNO unravels through a howling Trans* insurrection. This performative sound project emerges as a response to the necropolitical contexts of hate, apathy and extermination; a social parody of morality that activates with insubordinate rhetoric and the languages of rupture from the trans-global south.
Galactic Amazons, symbiotic amoebas, monstras gender terrorists, PachaQueer materialize as supertravesties. Their powers of rage, pleasure and lust infect performance in search of liberation and emancipation, striving to break the paradigms of oppression enforced upon diverse sexualities, and ultimately dismantle the power relations that relentlessly work towards eradication and erasure.
“Travestis Del Infierno” is presented in collaboration with the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange
PachaQueer is a performance and political project founded in Ecuador in 2013 by CoCa & MoTa, a dyad of Andean witches, radical travesties and gender terrorist monstras who proclaim the liberation of bodies and the emancipation of thoughts. Their artistic exploration has transformed a transvestite utopia into a Latin American dissident art platform of artists and activists fighting against the violence of the heteropatriarchal regime and the oppressions of the binary system. Their kamikaze strategy has ventured into the fields of film, music, literature, fashion, technology and their works have been presented in more than 21 countries around the world. Creators of the Transborder Festival of Performance and Politics #Performacula, the itinerant performance laboratory #MonstraCabaret and priestesses of the profane rituals of monstrosity #Travestisdelinfierno. PachaQueer is a trench of insurrection, symbiosis of art and politics and sanctuary of struggle and celebration.
Yo Marcho Trans, 2022, Photo by PELOS OZICO @pelosozico. Courtesy of The Artist.