A Travestilidade em cena: o corpo travesti no espetáculo Pele Negra, máscaras brancas

Abstract

This research examines the performativity of Travesti and trans, black and/or racialized bodies, marked by the phenomenon of anti-blackness, which develops a contemporary racial political perspective to analyze and understand the racial dynamics of today's world. From my experience as an actress, playwright and researcher and artistic, political, social and racial reading of spaces and scenic productions, I dedicate myself to an ethnographic investigation based on the theatrical show Black Skin, white masks based on the book of the same name by Frantz Fanon, and directed by Onisajé, focusing on the creation of the character Fanon, on the creative process, on performativity and on the disruption of norms perpetrated by the white supremacy in the processes of artistic and social construction. It develops, then, from the understanding of the world through Travestility, new discourses and practices that tend to demolish (inter)national projects and models of art and humanity, under the control of a white, western and imperialist system. In this way, concepts such as existences and divergent bodies are proposed to rethink the movement of racialized people in the world who do not fit the western binary gender norms, as well as to assimilate the powerful association of the concepts of anti-blackness and Travestility as a split in the models colonial differences of gender and race within the field of the arts.