What's the Tea? #3 with Lia García

Artist Talk
What’s the Tea? #3 with Lia García (La Novia Sirena)

For Queer Pride Month in Vienna, we are pleased to invite Lia García (Mexico City) and her radical tenderness. She is a performance artist, educator, poet, and detonates an intense pedagogy of love in spaces she calls “edges” and creates dystopias, fractures and other possibilities of restorative justice and collective healing.

Her trans activism has not only focused over time on defending the human rights of LGBTIQ+ communities in Mexico but has also involved creating performative, educational and poetic proposals for public spaces and institutions of symbolic complexity such as prisons, hospitals, schools, military camps and markets, among others.

What has characterized Lia García militancy has been that all her proposals are traversed by aesthetics of radical tenderness, a concept coined and conceptually developed by her in 2012 and that today configures a very particular form of political activism throughout Abya Yala, Latin America. Her affective and artistic-pedagogical interruptions, in addition, deeply question the effects that patriarchal violence exerts on the bodies that disobey the normativity of gender and sexuality, as well as the multiple forms of affectation that we go through living in Mexico, a context of pain and the second country with cases of transfeminicide. “It hurts me what hurts you”, declares Lia among her trans siblings.

The event will take place in English.

This edition of “What’s the Tea?” is organized by Mzamo Nondlwana, Orchi & Pêdra Costa at VBKÖ.