A life on the border between living and performing: case study on the performer Sucia Infecciosa Inmunda

Abstract

The artistic performance is an act, or rather, an action that almost always
respects a pre-conceived performative program that considers duration,
location, and execution. However, several performers extrapolate what is
understood by program, and experience performative actions for a longer
period of time. But when life and performance are blended together, what
is left then? How can we identify what is life and what is performance? In
that sense, for those who experience being on the border between living
and performing, in this case, instead of a limitation or a wall, this border
is a place for meetings and exchanges, where you can’t tell where one
space ends and the other starts, that is, it is the in-between place, where
life simply flows. This is an article about Sucia Infecciosa Inmunda, a
transgender person, a performer who was “monstrified” by society, and
who decided to perform “monstrification” as a way of (r)existing.