Transfeminist Provocations Against Fascism: Fer/Cary Fuentes (An HCI Public Humanities Grant Project)

Agatha Falls (322 Niagara St., Niagara Falls, NY 14303)

(Trans)feminist Provocations Against Fascism, is a series of encounters online and in person that will take place between August 23 and September 14 this fall. This encounter is part of CaldodeCultivo's yearly Arts & Politics Encounters and is supported by a Humanities New York HCI Public Humanities Grant awarded to Gabriela Cordoba Vivas. 

Transfeminist Provocations Against Fascism is an encounter that explores the work of transfeminist and queer artists fighting through artistic interventions the growing fascist affects, policies and discourses that reactionary forces worldwide are imposing with regards to gender and sexuality. The featured artists and scholars use and study creative activism to contest fascist discourses and practices in our daily lives and in the political arena. The encounter consists in a series of public debates both online and in person about the role of art and humanities in the resistance against fascism and the creation of transfeminist futures with a strong Latin American accent. 

Some of our guests will be joining us remotely, however we want to create a safe and critical face-to-face space to reflect and experience together the works of the invited artists, activist and scholars, focusing on how can we connect this global struggles to local matters. We will be meeting in three Buffalo artistic and cultural spaces that are important nodes in the local arts and culture ecosystem. 

To participate fill the form below and we'll send you the zoom link and reading and audiovisual material from the authors and artists. 

Fer/Cary Fuentes is a nonbinary Mexican artist whose new work explores masculinity and gender and sexual dissidence during a moment of profound patriarchal violence in Mexico. They first emerged onto the Mexican artistic scene as a performance artist at the end of the 1990s. In the early 2000s, Fuentes and their collaborator, Lorena Méndez, transitioned their work away from strictly artistic venues and began to work in the Mexican prison system in a project known as La Lleca. This ever shifting collective of artists, therapists, anarchists, and intellectuals became known for its nontraditional, experimental, and exploratory collaborative work with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals around thematics of gender, masculinity, and sexuality. In 2008 La Lleca published an overview of some of their methodologies and experiences in Cómo hacemos lo que hacemos (JUMEX, 2008), and in 2018 their archive became part of the Centro de Documentación Arkheia in the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC).