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TRANSLATING KUIR PROJECT WORKSHOPS
In the section below, you can find out about the Translating Kuir workshops, their participants and also watch videos of the meetings.
Cus Cus (Argentina)
Fran Castignani is a political scientist, university professor, translator, transgender and neurodivergent writer. She is currently part of the technical and training teams of the Directorate of Gender and Diversity of the Ministry of Health of the Nation (Argentina). She participates in the platforms of reflection and collective action Nuclear, Orgullo Loco Buenos Aires, Ministry of Otredades and Orgullo Disca. She lives in Buenos Aires.
Vir Cano (Argentina)
Vir Cano is a lesbian and feminist philosopher, writer, professor, and activist. They have published the books Dyke Ethics (Madreselva, 2015), Nietzsche (Galerna, 2015), Dar (el) duelo (Galerna, 2021) and Project for an alphabet of contempt (Madreselva, 2021). They have edited the compilation Nobody comes without a world (Madreselva, 2018) and is co-author with Judith Butler and Laura Fernández Cordero of Vidas en lucha. Conversations (Katz, 2019).
Maoilíosa (Nothern Ireland)
Maoilíosa is a writer and performer from Northern Ireland. They work in both English and Irish language, and researches how language impacts identity. They were part of Outburst’s Transforming Stages programme in 2020 and received an Outburst commission for 2021 to make a new show exploring how language, class, and non-binary experience intertwine.
Ali Prando (Brazil)
Ali Prando is philosopher, gender and sexuality researcher and multimedia artist. He has interviewed over 200 pop icons, from Caetano Veloso to Charli XCX. He conceived projects such as “Politising Beyoncé”, considered by HuffPost Brasil as “everything you need and didn’t know”, and “Björk: Paradigms of post-humanism.exe”. In 2021, he was one of the faces of the Facebook Pride campaign in the country, and launched the first single of his debut EP, “Technogender”
Marlene Wayar (Argentina)
Argentinian travesti activist, she has promoted the Trans Movement since its beginnings in Argentina. Founder and General Coordinator of Futuro Trans and co-founder of numerous travesti organisations and cooperatives. She has written prologues for several Trans-authored books such as “Poemario Trans-Pirado” 2013 and “Crianza” 2017 by Susy Shock. Curator of several Diversity Festivals. Author of “Travesti; A good enough theory ”and“ Travesti Dictionary from T to T ”Edited by Pagina / 12.
Raphael Khouri (Jordan | Germany)
Raphael Amahl Khouri is a transgender Jordanian-German documentary playwright and theatremaker living between Cairo and Berlin. Khouri is the author of several plays, including She He Me (Kosmos Theatre, Vienna 2019), ICH BRAUCHE MEINE RUHE (Politik im Freien Theater Festival, Munich 2018) and No Matter Where I Go (Beirut 2014). Khouri is also a part of the Climate Change Theater Action and their play Oh, How We Loved Our Tuna! was read internationally as part of the initiative.
Transalien (Brazil)
Ana Giselle (Transalien) is multimedia artist, cultural producer, independent curator, DJ, creator of the MARSHA Collective! and articulator of the rights of trans and transvestites in Brazil. Transalien represents a hybrid post-human identity of an extraterrestrial and a transgender, from which their performativity replants the erroneous assumptions of the assumption about the trans corporeity.
Lolo and Lauti (Argentina)
Lolo y Lauti is a duo of contemporary Argentine artists who have been working together since 2011. Their work includes performance, video, sculpture, installations and photography presented in formats ranging from exhibition to opera, through social media and virtual reality. Lolo y Lauti claim humor as an autonomous experience and a tool to address issues such as sexuality, drugs, death and art. Its iconography comes from the world of internet and television entertainment, but also from magazines and amusement parks.
Dominic Montague (Nothern Ireland)
Dominic is a playwright and theatre maker specialising in site responsive work that explores the hidden histories, untold stories, and secret mythologies of sites. He has worked with companies across Northern Ireland and internationally. He is currently an associate artist with Prime Cut Productions through the Reveal programme and Irish Writer in Residence with OUTing The Past.
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This project was supported by the Digital Collaboration Fund – British Council
