By clothing-bag, 08/12/2022

Trip to a transgender planet from a scenario in Bogotá

Under the dome of the Planetarium of Bogotá a group of "creatures" with costumes of lights and high heels propose the beginning of "a new era", a trip to a world where the diverse bodies such as their own are accepted and thus move away from this "Damaged planet "to land in a" transgender ".

The stars and constellations move to the rhythm of the electronic music of the "House of Tupamaras", while on the circular stage of the planetarium, Valentina del Castillo, the teacher of ceremonies, dressed in a red semi -transparent suit and a large mask of LED lightsI promote us to start the trip.

"Today we are celebrating the beginning of a new era; we will abandon this planet in search of a place where we can prosper, in search of future opportunities," says the artist, in a general call, but which is an invitation to her "companions", with tiger masks, sequin zebra dresses, cann skirts and grid stocks, which parade on and under the stage.

Technology and art

This is the "Les Fantastic" collective, made up of trans and marica people from Santa Fé, in the center of Bogotá, a "red" neighborhood, known for the sexual work activities paid that many of "Elles" also exercise.

Together with the District Institute of Arts (IDARTES) they decidedTheater, dance or "pole dance".

Viaje a un planeta transgénero desde un escenario de Bogotá

"It was a collective creative process where they used recycling materials for the construction of costumeCreative Laboratory of Smart Costumes.

The result was presented this Saturday night at the Planetarium as a brooch at the City of Desire Festival, the First Art and Memory International Festival of Idartes, before a full auditorium that ended the function dancing with the cast as if in a disco at two ofThe morning were.

The idea was to "link the textile design, fashion, electronic arts, everything that is soft circuits and the creation of technology from fashion," explains the Idartes Bogotá Platform Coordinator, Raquel Solórzano.And from there they decided to go to the staging.

Art to resist

Les fantastic and their dissident bodies, crossed out of "fags", to carry "a trail of feathers", harassed by the constant jokes and attacks and now resignified as "cyborg", they tired of "their presence on a damaged planet that does notmore than accelerating its deterioration, "says the castle.

That is why they travel to a planet where they can finally breathe."We are the fantastic, located at 2.800 light years of the planet Earth "in" a transgender planet, a new world where we will finally be free ", announces.

"We are revolutionary by nature," this trans artist tells Efe before the function."It seems absurd to me that we have to say: we are human, we are people like any other and demand rights, that should not exist," he laments, so they look for scenarios where they can "generate that type of noise".

"We decided to take art as part of our way of protest, of our 'pose' and our cry," continues from the castle, who during the work boasts of the "art of cheerful resistance".

The parade of costumes, of women with elf ears and blond phosphorescent hairs, of corsets that light up, of bare breasts and underwear, moves to the rhythm of "Vogue", the resistance dance of the trans communities trans of the 80s of the 80sIn the United States, surviving AIDS and stigma.

They do it without forgetting that outside the stage they continue to face an undeniable reality: 29 trans people, especially women, have been killed in Colombia so far this year, according to the Trans TRANS NETWORK.

"Our future is always uncertain, we never know when death comes," say on stage those who claim every day, either with colorful light suits, in the streets or from their position as sex workers, who are human beings.

Irene Escudero

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