How not to see as the State

How not to see as the State – Xeito Fole and Andrea Corrales.

The work combines research and artistic production, focusing on expanding and altering the imaginaries related to sex work and pro-sex activism through the aesthetic, political, and historical alliances between sex work and sex dissidences. Thinking and resisting around the intersection of sex work and affective, sexual, and gender dissidences is a position that challenges the current ruptures produced by the legal device between sex workers and sex-gender dissidences in the Spanish State.

Andrea and Xeito, however, seek care practices in the way images are produced. They ask: How can we generate images/produce imaginaries that do not endanger people? Knowing that persecuted sexual practices are risky practices, through a space of dialogue, resistance, and critical practice, the central axis of their research focuses on generating visibilities that correspond with ethical, situated, and responsible practices with communities.

Based on the analysis of statistical figures, censuses, archives, laws, and reports that make visible/produce categories or social groups from the repressive apparatus of the State, they question the power devices that operate through the visualization of data and control technologies. They are interested in delving into truth production techniques based on the positivist imperative and abstraction operations as a way to conceal certain experiences that do not want to be visible but rather protected. They seek to break away from singular narratives and biased narratives under which state archives and statistics are constructed, erasing memories, lives, and shared struggles.

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