Closet Demonstrations

Transition Diaries by Finn, aka Animal Bro.

Transition Diaries is a series of comics following KweerKat on their journey through early transition - a liminal space with few true allies. Addressing the invisibility of transmasculine people and FTMs in both mainstream and q***r spaces, these stories give a first-person view of everyday situations.
They are an intimate, honest, vulnerable and unfiltered document of all the big and the small experiences of coming out of the closet and transitioning. The social, political, medical and cultural all intersect at the personal.
By sharing these most intimate thoughts, KweerKat pushes against narratives of objectification and instrumentalisation, and encourages others to come out and to reject paranoia, self-censorship, and the paradox of belonging through fulfilling expectations that are ultimately always normative.

This work is part of a larger cycle exploring and expressing the trans experience from a personal perspective. The protagonist, KweerKat, is the artist's own alter ego and the stories are always based on true events.
Though the subject matter of stereotyping, objectification, instrumentalisation and dehumanisation can be conflicting or difficult, the focus is always on avoiding blame or judgement, and on having a positive impact instead by providing insight and allowing people to empathise, and ultimately form their own opinions.

The project description is available in Serbian, German and English in the exhibition catalogue, pages 29-30.

Photos by Cansu Tandoğan

The pathway to the goats by Clémentine Roy and Marta Orlando.

The video is suspended between visible and invisible le***an desire and le***an cruising as an act of reclaiming outdoor spaces and territories. After centuries of le***an presence and absence in the closet, we think that it is time to feel connected with the outdoor and explore our desires within nature, seen as a lover, not a mother. We are developing a wider research about the whistling language as a coded form of communication, framed as a tool which connects us with other inter-species, too. The act of cruising is seen as an act of resistance of bodies and behaviours which escapes what is considered normativity.

The film description in French, Italian, and English is available in the exhibition catalogue, pages 33-34.