IANTEVO

EDÉN II

Video performance installation

EDEN II is part of a group of video performances that criticizes the mandate of hegemonic masculinity and its concepts of performance and virility.  The participants are six venezuelan migrant male sex workers, a population that over the years has increased its migration to Peru. Through conversations and exercises, we went out of our comfort zone and questioned masculinity and the importance we give to erection, a reflex act of sexual desire. Through our bodies we questioned the political, the written over the functional, and evidenced the clear differences that exist between the normative and the real. Likewise, we criticize virility as an immutable concept, and collectively we create new paths distanced from the hegemonic, established in a misery of sexual education that we have received in a context of machismo and social inequality.

We show that each body performs differently, there is no such thing as something static in sexuality; we have become dependent on physical stimulus – for wanting to fit into the norm – and that a revaluation of desire as the engine of sexuality is necessary, in order to move towards new paths of masculinity.

The video performance is projected on mattresses piled up against the wall in an installation, the mattresses certainly remind us of what can be found on a rooftop in Lima, territory of obsolete remains and accumulations of things that could have served a purpose but ended up relegated to oblivion far from an attentive look at what is reusable.