This work is a performance-to-video piece enacting in eight scenes the collaboratively written creation myth of Q-LoXXX. It depicts a volcanic island where all earthly species—extinct, endangered, and present—exist in a state of continuous mutation and becoming. This transformative place is threatened by static and contaminated external forces, prompting its inhabitants to enact a cannibal sacrifice to restore the land’s cyclical and ever-changing nature.
The project connects Latin American decolonial and cannibalistic discourses with queer resistance experiences and theory, breaking through static subjectivities and fixed identities. We channel the lives, efforts, and achievements of those before us, carrying our queer ghosts with us into a utopia of our own collective imagination and creation: Q-LoXXX. Through this process of speculation and fictionalization, we reclaim figures, spaces, memories and beings, to highlight them as ideals and values of our shared experience.
This project was developed through a collaborative process with a group of queer Latinx asylum seekers and migrants from the extended community of Papaya Kuir. I co-facilitated a series of writing and performance workshops that employed character building, role play, fabulation, and collage to collectively create the myth. I then synthesized this work, transforming the raw material into a structured script of eight scenes. To materialize the universe of Q-LoXXX, I crafted props from papier-mâché and found objects and painted the scenography, giving form to our transformative space for the community, of which I am part of, to experientially live its utopia and document its own methods of world-making.
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