[-empyre-] to brazil with love

[Irina Contreras]

hi everyone,
my name is Irina Contreras....
just wanting to drop in finally and try to tune in more....
excited about where this is going....i have to say i was finding some of the other conversation to be losing me for some reason...maybe its just the nature of the internet...
im really intrigued by this booing that took place at the sexual diversity screening...what happened if i can ask?
im also interested and wondering about an expansion on the ideas of microerotic and the integration of erotic into political issues.
It seems funny because queerness and sex has been inevitably politicized as i see it.
but i also think that the way it is often currently done in the states bores me a bit....it feels very limited to me racially especially.
alright, im done....
also, are you active with the icarus project discussions?
Abrazos,
Irina


--- On Thu, 5/22/08, brian whitener <iwaslike at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: brian whitener <iwaslike at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [-empyre-] to brazil with love
> To: empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 6:53 AM
> hi all,
>  
> sorry for the absence. internet access has been a bit
> difficult this last days. 
>  
> these are a few questions for hilan and fabiane: what does
> it mean to work in an errorist manner?can you send examples
> from the handbook of esquizotrans pornography?what is the
> 'esquizerda' (the esquizoleft) ?what does the
> organization of trans or esquizoleft community look like in
> brasil?
>  
>  
>  
> Fabiane Borges (BR) is a writer and media and communication
> activistwho works with genders, transgenders, and
> technology. She has abackground in squat art and social
> movements, such as those involvingwhores, women, low-tech
> media, indigenous groups, and theanti-psychiatry movement
> [luta antimanicomial]. She enjoysesquizoanalysis and
> usually uses the name
> Cassandras.http://cassandras.multiply.com. Hilan Bensusan
> (BR) inspects singularities (like poetry writers,people
> coming out of the prisons), lectures philosophy in
> theUniversity ofBrasilia and writes manifestoes.
> http://www.unb.br/ih/fil/hilanb  Esquizotrans – a gang of
> our shifting slices Esquizotrans is an assembly of desires
> focused on transgressing anddiluting borders. We experiment
> with writing, filming, performing inorder to blur both
> gender and genre borders. We do it in an erroristmanner (as
> hangovers of the Errorist International). In 2007 we were
> booed in a sexual diversity film festival in Brazilafter
> screening our Mulher-Bicha (Female Fag). Since 2006 we
> produceshort films accompanied with small performances that
> attempt tochannel erotic energy into politics while exposing
> the politicalundertone of the microerotic. We maintain a
> column in the MondeDiplomatique, Brazil, were we dilute the
> principles of column-writing,celebrate both the transsexual
> and the transgender takes on whateveris cyberpolitical and
> formulate what we call the 'esquizerda'
> (theesquizoleft) – that would attempt to extract
> subversive force from themultiplication of exception,
> deviation and error. Our current projectsinvolve short
> films of urban intervention in several towns,
> writingperformances where our convulsive collective writing
> is shown in theopen and the publication of our handbook of
> esquizotrans pornography. Our recent
> site:http://esquizotrans.wordpress.com enjoy some of our
> movies:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnRMbQQM2J0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZyL7pWfdG4
>  
>  
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