The performance Trans-Architect considers the infrastructures of oppression imposed by capitalism and colonialism on cities such as Brussels and Kinshasa. Brussels' city map is a grid of steel and concrete buildings and avenues. Architecture determines who can access city spaces, and how. It establishes zoning, creating rigid social hierarchies based on gender, race and culture.

 

Colonial and supremacist monuments form the epicentres of this grid, celebrating oppression. Trans-Architect transforms these monuments into trans spaces where identities, histories and human conditions are negotiated. Inspiration comes from protest groups such as BLM, climate change and LGBT+ groups, the Congolese Milandu and the sacred clown tradition, as well as other forms of critique in which the human body is the primary site of memory en identity. Performing bodies become moving monuments, using stone monuments as a stage for transnational, intercultural, and intersectional critiques. Sacred clowns use burlesque to challenge zoning. 

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Nsuki series 1_#1 munu

Digital print on metallic silver paper, price including 3mm Clear Perspex mounting

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