Cynthia C. Delgado

"Staging the Interstice" is an interdisciplinary study of contemporary transfeminist performance in Mexico City at the crux of creative practice and everyday life. It looks to performances by trans women artist-activists enacted in interstitial locations—such as the prison patio, the subway, the dressing room and the rooftop—to examine the political and aesthetic effects of gender and sexuality on preconceived notions of space and place. Accounting for the histories of coloniality/modernity that constitute the racial and sexual formations of Mexico City, the project argues that these performative interventions re-order spatial logics to produce alternate stages for political imagination. “Staging the Interstice” proposes an alternate method for mapping the city through performance and offers an itinerant theory of space that asks, what do gender and sexuality do to space and place?