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The Museo Travesti del Perú and the Histories We Deserve 

Miguel A. López, Giuseppe Campuzano · 2013
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Gender & Queer Based Violence Pedagogy & Education Social Justice

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What if a museum and its discourse become a space to generate an alternative history of a State, that makes its myths and storytelling seem like they belong to a false and constructed legacy that needs to undergo a serious deconstruction? This is one of the questions that Miguel Lopez is trying to answer in this essay that emerges from a series of discussions and interviews with Giuseppe Campuzano, the philosopher and drag queen that founded the Museo Travesti del Peru (Transvestite Museum of Peru) in Lima.

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Gender & Queer Based Violence Pedagogy & Education Social Justice

About the author

Miguel A. López is writer, researcher, and Co-Director and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica in San José, Costa Rica. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. He has published in periodicals such as Artforum, Afterall, Ramona, e-flux journal, Art in America, Art Journal, and Manifesta Journal, among others. He has recently curated Cecilia Vicuña, a retrospective exhibition at Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2019, and MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City, 2020; and Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For at Americas Society, New York, 2019. In 2016, he was a recipient of the Independent Vision Curatorial Award from ICI (Independent Curators International), New York.

About the author

Giuseppe Campuzano is a transvestite philosopher. In 2004, created Museo Travesti del Perú, a bodily counter-narrative to makeup voids and de-makeup boundaries. Parasitising the museums of contemporary art of São Paulo, Santiago de Chile and Barcelona, and the Reina Sofia, Madrid; universities of Lima, Brighton, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, México D. F. and Quito. Working the streets. Spawning libraries with Museo Travesti del Perú (2008); Chamanes, danzantes, putas y misses: el travestismo obseso de la memoria (ramona, 2010); Veiled Genealogy for a Transfuture (The Future Lasts Forever, Carlos Motta and Runo Lagormasino, eds., 2011) and El Tercer Sexo en el Cuarto Poder (¿Y qué si la democracia ocurre?, Miguel A. López and Eliana Otta eds. 2012). Campuzano is the recipient of the Foundation for Arts Initiatives grant in 2013.

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