Tramas artísticas del exilio sexual, entre Brasil y Argentina
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35305/b.v6i12.187Keywords:
Exile, Brazil, Argentina’s Dictatorship, Dissensus, Sexual PoliticsAbstract
This article aims to rethink the concept of “sexual exile”, coined by Néstor Perlongher, as an approach to the lives of artists whose dissent has been not only political (regarding authoritarian regimes) but structural against an hegemony of bodies forced to live according to heteronormative domination. To do so, we will focus particularly on the experiences of queer survival during the years 1976-1983 in order to outline a provisional cartography that makes visible the resistance strategies displayed by artists whose productions contested the prevailing sexual regime. Focusing on these silent forms of agency for individual and collective preservation during State Terrorism (developed specifically between Brazil and Argentina) we will try to find answers to the question: Is it possible to exile oneself from sexual politics?