Treparse más que el arte: Construcción identitaria de personas transformistas desde las narrativas y su noción de corporeidad.

Abstract

The present investigation had as objetive comprehend how transformism arts permeate the identitary construction and the notion of corporeity in narrative terms of people who practice transformism in the city of Bogota. This is a proposal that looked for the extension of the perspective towards a new conception of transformism, where the person doesn’t just transit into a different gender, but also creates a new performed identity that doesn’t left behind the persons quotidian identity, that are constructed based on everydayness and take into account social references as described on social constructism. Therefore this investigation looks for comprehend also the interrelationship that these two identities establish, basing this research on a Qualitative methodology from the performative ethnography. Thus, scenarios were established in order to search the relevant narratives about the identity construction of the participants and their corporal notion with the help of a body map, understanding this last element as the primary material that contacts the person with the world and accounts his respective history. In order to account the wealth that lived in the participants' stories, a categorical analysis was made to identify the way in which transformism, identity construction, corporeality and narratives are articulated conceptually. This investigation, recognizes the way in which transformism is established as a discursive element that allows to understand the interaction between the identity and the corporeal notion of the subject and how these are part of the bases for understanding the fluidity within the gender spectrum and with this question social norms against cis generism and heteronormativity.