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© graphic design by Carlos Vergara
Jardín de Fraudes Lentos/Garden of Slow Deceits
(2011)
Jardin de Fraudes Lentos es un performance multimedia que explora la relación entre la nación y la domesticidad. La pieza asume y celebra la nostalgia, el fraude y lo incompleto como mecanismos de reconstitución cuir, donde la libertad nacional como sexual se construyen a través de ficciones e imaginaciones. Estructurada por narraciones autobiográficas y apropiaciones cinematográficas del cine extranjero la pieza busca convocar una nacionalidad cuir puertorriqueña en un constante proceso performativo de in-domesticidad y auto-constitución ficcional.


Garden of Slow Deceits is a multimedia performance that combined elements of dance, theater, and video to explore the relationship between nation and domesticity in which nationhood is constructed and imagined through notions of fraud, failure and incompleteness. Structured as an autobiographical storytelling Jardin Fraudes Lentos challenged traditional approaches to nationhood through a constant performative process of queer self-constitution.
© photo by Martín Camacho
© graphic design by Carlos Vergara


© photo by Martín Camacho
Partí-dos (the video)

© photo by Martín Camacho

© photo by Carlos Mario Lema
This is a video made for Jardín de Fraudes Lentos in collaboration with Claudia Calderón.

© photo by Carlos Mario Lema

© photo by Carlos Mario Lema

© photo by Martín Camacho

© photo by Carlos Mario Lema


© photos by Carlos Mario Lema
III Encuentro de Artes Vivas: Dramaturgias/Performancias
Museum of Art, National University of Colombia.
Bogotá, August 1-6, 2011
