A day of talks-interventions: A Different Disorder
As part of the exhibition A Different Disorder, the researchers Diego Falconí Trávez and Elena Castro Córdoba, together with the performer Feña Celedón, will hold a series of talks from which to reflect on issues related to the sexual-dissident temporalities, phantasmagoria and necropolitics associated with the premises that currently house La Capella itself or the practice of drag as a strategy for dismantling gender.
‘Sodomitine Time’, by Diego Falconí Trávez
‘Sodomitine Time’ is a theoretical proposal that attempts to explain the spatio-temporal complexity of specific gender-dissident subjectivities in spaces marked by coloniality. The talk aims to create a dialogue between certain texts and ideas from the Andes with the exhibition A Different Disorder.
Diego Falconí Trávez is a lawyer specialising in human rights with a PhD in literary theory and comparative literature. His areas of research include gender, sexualities, decolonial theories, Andean studies and sexual dissidence.
‘Enter, Leave, Remain’, by Elena Castro Córdoba
This talk visits a part of the memory that surrounds the context of La Capella. To do so, it will dwell on documents and photographs from the archive of the former Hospital de la Santa Creu, a space that contained the mortal life breath of Barcelona’s sick, allowing us to continue to conjure up presences and absences through the exercise of recalling the ghostly matter that surrounds us and putting us into contact with the past.
Elena Castro Córdoba holds a PhD in Feminist and Gender Studies from the UCM. Her research work focuses on contemporary feminisms and their relationship with aesthetics, as well as the politics of time and the archive.
‘The Artistic Practice of Drag: Decolonising Gender’, by Feña Celedón (Norma Mor / Muerte a la Norma)
Drag activist and performer Feña Celedón, better known as Norma Mor / Muerte a la Norma, presents a performative lecture that uses transformism or drag to provide the audience with practical tools for understanding how drag technology can be a proposal to deconstruct the idea of gender imposed by colonial logics.
Drag performance or transformism emerged in the latter half of the 19th century as a dramatic element aimed at making a comic and satirical projection of societal notions of behaviour, primarily characterised by the exaggeration of gender roles. Drag allows us to distance ourselves from norms such as the binary gender system, being white, being able-bodied and heteronormativity. By (de)making norms, drag proposes images in which the future can be imagined and lived in the present through performativity.
