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Johan Mijail

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Imaginarios contrasexuales: analquismo, amor vegetal y disidencia racial.

9 Aug 2019, 5-7pm

home school y Yale Union te invitan a un encuentro de cinema y diálogo con el artista trans-marica dominicano Johan Mijail. El artista y activista produce un trabajo que va de la producción escritural a la performance (y al revés) con el fin de proponer una opinión crítica sobre el régimen heterocisblanco y su supremacía colonialista. Mira en el espacio de lo anal una posibilidad para en un deseo de vinculación con las plantas y el animalismo por venir proyectar imaginarios desde el cuerpo como centro de una política y poética trans. Johan cuestiona la racionalidad de la mente hetero desde un feminismo antirracista y escandaloso. Propone formatos políticos desde la incertidumbre, el aparecer, la escritura, el vídeo y la performance.

Johan Mijail (Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, 1990) Escritor y performer. Estudió Periodismo. En 2011 publica el libro de poesía ilustrada “Metaficción” y participa en la película Sister del Colectivo Lewis Forever en la ciudad de Berlín, Alemania. En 2014 publica “Pordioseros del Caribe” y en 2016 junto Jorge Díaz del Colectivo Universitario de Disidencia Sexual (CUDS) “Inflamadas de retórica. Escrituras promiscuas para una tecno-decolonialidad”, ambos por Editorial Desbordes. Ha participado en festivales de performance en Estados Unidos, Chile, Costa Rica, República Dominicana y Alemania, con un trabajo escritural y visual que invita a un imaginario transfeminista y decolonial. Beneficiario de la Beca Migrante (2015) del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile y en 2016 participa en el 10° Encuentro del Instituto Hemisférico de Performance y Política “ex−céntrico: disidencias, soberanías, performance (Universidad de Chile−Universidad de Nueva York). En 2018 publica “Escrituras del otro cuerpo” por Ediciones Cielo Naranja y “Manifiesto Antirracista. Escrituras para una biografía inmigrante” por Los Libros de la Mujer Rota en el mismo año.

Translation:

Contrasexual imaginaries: anal-anarchy, vegetal love, and racial dissidence.

home school and Yale Union invite you to join us on 9 August 2019, 5-7p, for a screening, reading, and discussion with Dominican trans-fag artist Johan Mijail. Free and open to the public, broadcast live for distance education. The artist and activist produces work that goes from written production to performance (and vice versa) in order to critique the white het cis regime and its colonialist supremacy. Mijail sees in the space of the anal a possibility, birthed out of a desire to bond with plants and animalism, to project imaginaries from the body as the center of a trans politics and poetics. Johan questions the rationality of the hetero mind from an anti-racist and scandalous feminism. Proposes political formats from uncertainty, appearing, writing, video and performance.

Johan Mijail (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1990) Writer and performer. Studied journalism. In 2011, published the book of illustrated poetry “Metafiction” and participated in the film Sister of the Collective Lewis Forever in Berlin, Germany. In 2014, published “Pordioseros del Caribe” and in 2016 Jorge Díaz of the University Collective of Sexual Dissidence (CUDS) “Inflamadas de rhetoric. Promiscuous writings for a techno-decoloniality “, both by Editorial Desbordes. Mijail has participated in performance festivals in the United States, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Germany, with literary and visual work that invites a trans-feminist and decolonial imaginary. Beneficiary of the Migrant Scholarship (2015) of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile and in 2016 participated in the 10th Encounter of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics “ex-centric: dissidences, sovereignties, performance (University of Chile-University of New York). In 2018 published “Scriptures of the Other Body” by Ediciones Cielo Naranja and “Anti-Racist Manifesto: Writings for an Immigrant Biography” by Los Libros de la Mujer Rota in the same year.

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