Arte Contemporáneo en Mèxico, Performance Art.: Muxes: Lukas Avendaño, Rèquiem for an Alcaravan.

Muxes Zapotecos: Lukas Avendaño, Rèquiem for an Alcaravan. Zapotec Muxhe Performer. Mexico.
Fotografìas de Mario Patiño. 2017.

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“Lukas Avendaño is an emerging Mexican performance artist whose recent work constitutes a queer performatic intervention of Mexican nationalistic representations, particularly that of Zapotec Tehuana women. Avendaño embodies the complex identity of muxes, or male homosexuals from the Tehuantepec Isthmus where he was born. His cross-dressing performance interweaves ritual dances with autobiographical passages and actions that involve audience members, in order to challenge the widely held view of a gay-friendly indigenous culture and point towards the existence of lives that negotiate pain and loneliness with self-affirming pride. The article concludes with a theoretical argument around the way Avendaño’s work queers the very concept of representation, placing it under erasure to point towards the possibility of ‘representaXión’, a word which suggests a sensual, disidentificatory and body-based kind of performance.” Antonio Prieto Stambaugh

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Lukas Avendaño was born on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca and is of Zapotec ancestry. He developed his arresting style of performance after having studied and presented at a wide variety of programs including: the Pocha Nostra Summer Workshop (Oaxaca), the National Dance Institute’s Teaching Artist Training Program (NYC), Seminar in Theater / Anthropology Relations (Denmark), the 3rd International Congress on Science, Art and Humanities; the 8th Body Theater Conference (Poland). He has also performed in the Czech Republic, France, Quebec and Peru. Lukas has developed a very sophisticated body practice that fuses indigenous shamanic imagery with Buto and a self-styled radical dance vocabulary invented by him. Avendaño embodies the complex identity of muxes, from the Tehuantepec Isthmus where he was born. His performance interweaves ritual dances with autobiographical passages and actions that involve audience members

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Estudió danza y una especialidad en creación dancística. Es muxe y asume esta condición a partir del manifiesto Hablo por mi diferencia, del chileno Pedro Lembel. Desde entonces su condición muxe es también política, ética y filosófica. Ha participado en distintos festivales en México y otros países.