Giuseppe campuzano biography
Since 2003, Campuzano has been working on the 'Transvestite Museum' project, an exploration of the realities of transvestism, a staging of its aesthetics, and a confrontation between its forms of knowledge and official discourses. This performance explored a transvestite body that performs in order to persist in the face of a denied discourse: ritual turned into spectacle, a queer body whose performance deconstructs and assembles its topics and differences as strategy.
Transvestite Museum
Since 2003, Campuzano has been working on the 'Transvestite Museum' project, an exploration of the realities of transvestism, a staging of its aesthetics, and a confrontation between its forms of knowledge and official discourses. This performance explored a transvestite body that performs in order to persist in the face of a denied discourse: ritual turned into spectacle, a queer body whose performance deconstructs and assembles its topics and differences as strategy. The 'Transvestite Museum' appeared at the National University within a geneology of Peruvian ritual dance, always from the body: the bodies of the Chicas Extraordinarias in relationship with their intra-university address, and the body of Luis Gerardo Rosero, weaving together objects and subjects of shared memory through his choreography.
Biography
Giuseppe Campuzano is a researcher and artist. Since 2003, he has been working on the "Transvestite Museum" project, an exploration of the realities of transvestism, a staging of its aesthetics, and a confrontation between its forms of knowledge and official discourses.
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Permanent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/8cz8wc3hCampuzano, Giuseppe
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Biography
Peruvian philosopher, researcher, multidisciplinary artist and activist for transgender rights who investigated the history of transvestism in Peru, sexuality and gender identity. He conceptualized transvestism not as the imitation of women but as the exercise of freedom of a person breaking conventions. His work includes graphics, plastic work, videos, and literature. Since 1990, he registered his transvestite body as a project and staged various exhibitions. He wrote the book Museo Travesti del Perú (2003-2008). Giuseppe Campuzano died on 9 November 2013 from a chronic degenerative disease at age 44.
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Birth certificate in hand from Sy Scholfield, copy on file.
Categories
- Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate
- Passions : Sexuality : Transvestite
- Vocation : Art : Fine art artist
- Vocation : Art : Photography
- Vocation : Education : Researcher
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Gender Studies
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Philosopher
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
Interview with Giuseppe Campuzano, conducted by Marcela Fuentes, during the 7th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, held in August of 2009 in Bogotá, Colombia under the title Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas. In this interview, Giuseppe Campuzano talks about his take on how his particular performance-related work makes a political intervention in the public sphere. This interview complements his performance Museo Travesti, showcased in this 10-day event, which brought together activism, scholarship, and art around the themes of legacies, memories, struggles, and frontiers of citizenship.
Biography
Giuseppe Campuzano is a researcher and artist. Since 2003, he has been working on the Transvestite Museum project, an exploration of the realities of transvestism, a staging of its aesthetics, and a confrontation between its forms of knowledge and official discourses.
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Giuseppe Campuzano
Frank Giuseppe Campuzano Espinoza conocido como Giuseppe Campuzano (Lima, 14 de septiembre de 1969 - 9 de noviembre de 2013) fue un filósofo, investigador, artista multidisciplinar y activistatravesti peruano que investigó sobre la historia del travestismo en Perú, la sexualidad y sus construcciones de identidad. Conceptualizó el travestismo no como la imitación de la mujer, sino como el ejercicio de libertad de una persona rompiendo convenciones. También cuestionó la figura del travesti blanco y occidental de la teoría queeranglosajona, reivindicando la impureza de los rastros cuir del sur.
Su trabajo abarca la gráfica, la obra plástica, la videocreación, la literatura y las acciones escénicas. Desde 1990 registró su cuerpo travestido como proyecto y realizó distintas muestras. Es autor del proyecto Museo Travesti del Perú (2003-2008).
Biografía
[editar]Campuzano proviene de una familia numerosa. Los padres, provenientes del campo andino, tuvieron nueve hijos, de los cuales tres viven en Lima. Durante una etapa de su vida vivió en los Estados Unidos, en Virginia, pero luego de seis meses regresó al Perú.
A finales de los años 80, Giuseppe Campuzano analiza las posibilidades de su cuerpo transgénero, parodiando sin tabúes lo que se considera la normalidad sexual en galerías, marchas, fiestas y ferias de arte. Posteriormente, a finales de la década de los noventa, realiza un viaje al pueblo de su padre en los andes peruanos para conocer e involucrarse con las fiestas campesinas y con los márgenes de lo citadino.
En el año 2000, empezó a investigar con el tema travesti y la performance. De esta manera, en el 2003, inicia la investigación para el desarrollo de su trabajo más importante, el Museo Travesti de Perú, un proyecto que plantea el contexto histórico del travestismo en Perú y una reflexión filosófica a partir de una investigación realizada, recopilando documentos, obje