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And even less so the concealing of resistance movements and insurgencies or, as you could sayin hard to translate concepts, without leaving behind the struggle for “lesbian visibility,” “transanger” nor “gay pride”. (Each person who reads these pages, can translate the concepts thatseem incompatible, though complementary within a common history). Without setting asidethese historic and genuine alliances, but also without subjecting ourselves to the labeling theyare at risk of becoming. This cordiality, in turn, bears the sign of a Bartleby-like negation: wedo not want to translate it, we do not want to deflate it. There is a risk in this posture, and herelies the challenge. To return to being completely unintelligible and thus to being consideredless human. Is this not, perhaps, the same place from whence we came? The general purposeof the interventions seems to be to not forget these common origins, to reinhabit them, togo through them with the new lights and tools of the present and to gather from there thematerials for work.An art able to traverse the field ofpain with other eyes.And then? What is KORDIAL KUIR? It is very difficult to explain a concept that pulses and thatat the same time represents an invisible bond.Lolo y Lauti10
2. HOSTILITY HAS A SOCIAL BODYNow, let us, at the other extreme of cordiality, look for its opposite, and we find “hostility”. Herewe uncover another word erased from the official contemporary line up; probably, in this case,because it is too gentle when compared to other, more forceful terms (violence, bullying, hatecrimes, discrimination, abuse, aggressions) that circulate in militant discourse and, for sometime now, in progressive and not so progressive medias as well.But hostility is much more than a vintage and inoffensive gesture in comparison with a pointblankgunshot or orchestrated persecution by the State itself. “Hostility” rests in the foundationof all these other words. You could say that without hostility, the others would not be possible.Hostility is not a matter of bad manners, it is the great enemy of truth. Because “rather thanreconsidering their own opinion, a hostile individual dedicates themselves to convincing andforcing the world to adjust it to their way of thinking, regardless of the costs and effort involved.”An orthopedic world marching towards a single point is the world hostility constructs.At the extreme opposite end from the patience of listening, and especially opposed to thecuriosity, hostility proposes a single thought, outside of all truths. And here is where withinTRANSLATING KUIR emerges the circulation of a specific knowledge with a great capacity tomultiply itself arises.Nine guests invited to discuss the problem of translation in their different spaces, theprovocateurs speak from a “privileged” knowledge about this hostility. Whether they suffered itpersonally or not, they know in a singular way its forms, languages and strategies of necessity.And somehow that shared knowledge is revealing. Not as tears anymore, nor revolt, nor pride,but as raw material. The starting point of the artistic event. From Argentina, for example, Loloand Lauti analyze the place of humor, not as a virtue of “laughing about or laughing with” but asa possibility of adopting a point of view completely apart from the heteronormative perspective.Marlene Wayar develops what she herself calls a Latin American Trans theory.Each story reveals the extent to which this shared knowledge, lived in each body, has becomepart of artistic practices. The tone of the conversation remains focused on what you cannottranslate, on telling a story that borders the singular word.From Brazil, known for being “the country that kills the largest number of transvestites in theworld”, Transalien historicizes her experience like someone singing a new song: “When I was11
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