Renata Carvalho
Is an actress, director, playwright, and transpologist.
RENATA CARVALHO – PRESENTANTION
Graduated in Social Sciences. Founder of Monart (National Movement of Trans Artists), and of the "Trans Representativity Manifesto" (which aims at the inclusion of travesti/trans bodies in the spaces of art creation and calls for a break from the practice of Trans Fake - cisgender artists who play trans/travesti characters).
As a transpologist (a trans anthropologist), she has studied the travesti/trans body since 2007, when she became a volunteer prevention agent for STIs, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and hepatitis by the municipal health secretary of Santos, working specifically with travestis and transsexuals in prostitution, the same year of her travesti perception.
This transpology points to the social, mediatic, criminal, hyper sexualizing, pathological, religious and moral construction that permeates trans/travesti bodies, where art, and consequently, artists were/are also responsible for the construction of this common sense imagery.
The artist places her travesti body as subject and object of research, debating/denouncing the absence of these bodies in art spaces.
Transpophagic Manifesto
TRANSPOFAGIC MANIFEST
“I decided today to dress myself with my own skin. My travesti body”. Renata “dresses herself” with her own body to narrate the historicity of her corporeality. Renata feeds on her “transcestrality”. Eats it, digests it. A transpophagy. The travesti body as an experiment, a laboratory guinea pig. A Travesti Body’s manifest. The sign twinkles TRAVESTI. TRAVESTI. TRAVESTI
CREDIT
Dramaturgy and performance: Renata Carvalho
Direction: Luiz Fernando Marques (Lubi)
Light designer: Wagner Antônio
Video Art: Cecília Lucchesi
Operation and light adaptation: Juliana Augusta
Production: Corpo Rastreado
Co-production: Risco Festival, MITsp e Corpo Rastreado.
Diffusion: Corpo a Fora e FarOFFa