To Appear Without Performing
A quiet but powerful work, foXXY boXXY questions how bodies are seen, represented, and understood on stage. At its center is the travesti body – a queer and gender-nonconforming identity rooted in Latin American trans communities. Here, the body does not act as a symbol or role. It appears simply as itself, in all its complexity and contradiction.
foXXY boXXY begins with a refusal – a refusal of traditional theater, with its clear stories, fixed roles, and neat endings. Instead of telling a tale, it opens up space for a different kind of presence – one that resists being explained or categorized.
Through layers of poetic text, sound, space, and theory, the piece challenges the usual rules of performance and spectacle. A central part of the work is a durational installation: a live video stream showing a body lying on a mattress in another room. The body is present, but only as an image – delayed, blurred, and fragile. The space between viewer and body is shaped by distance, mediation, and distortion. foXXY boXXY unfolds as a form of performative cinema, blurring the lines between screen and stage, presence and representation. It doesn’t offer answers. It doesn’t perform. Instead, it asks us to stay with what cannot be fully seen or known.
Created by the performance collective p0rn0t0pia, foXXY boXXY explores what it means to be seen but not reached, to speak without being fully heard, to exist without needing to explain. It becomes a quiet but urgent act of resistance – against the violence and marginalization that trans and travesti people face in everyday life. Creating a space like this is both a political act and a deep gesture of care.
Access and Equity Statement
We are committed to creating spaces that center those most often excluded from cultural institutions – particularly trans, travesti, racialised, migrant, and crip communities. We recognize that systemic barriers, economic precarity, and institutional violence continue to shape who gets to access performance spaces, both as audience and as creators.
For this reason, we offer free admission for individuals from these communities. If this applies to you, you are welcome – no explanation or documentation is needed. This is not a gesture of generosity, but part of our political commitment to dismantling the exclusions we live with.
● p0rn0t0pia is an open collective working at the intersection of performance, politics, and desire. Their practice moves between direct action, artistic experimentation, and community-based research, often rooted in dialogue with local groups wherever they work. Through performances, public conversations, and collaborative labs, they challenge established theatrical forms and explore new ways of being together on stage.
Driven by a commitment to dissident practices, the collective continuously investigates how openness, discomfort, and shared authorship can shape both artistic processes and social relations. Their work centers on building and strengthening networks of resistance and care within the communities they engage.
p0rn0t0pia is currently a resident collective at Nau Ivanow in Barcelona (2024–2028), a centre for artistic creation and research in the performing arts.
Note.
The performance includes strobe lights, direct address to the audience, sexual imagery, and limited space. There is also a possibility of getting wet during the performance.
p0rn0t0pia’s work is shaped by a wide range of theoretical and artistic influences, which act as catalysts in their creative processes. Thinkers and artists such as Dana Michel, Leda Maria Martins, Fred Moten, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Dionne Brand are among the voices that inform and inspire the collective’s approach to performance-making.
Recommended age-limit: 16 år
In collaboration with Karmaklubb .
