Tuesdays of video / Barcelona travesti

In Actuació d’Ocaña i Camilo (1977), the protagonists give a series of performances: Camilo, cross-dressed and shaving, composes a kind of television commercial; Ocaña performs a play-back –as they used to say at the time– of a copla; then they show their asses, they turn into different characters; the party drifts towards an orgy.

Video-Nou sought to constitute itself as ‘a community of media producers’. In order to do so, they developed a set of media and political practices that sought to give autonomy to the public sphere. If we take into account that this tape was recorded on the day of the FGAC’s call for the demonstration of gays and lesbians demanding the repeal of the law of Social Danger, perhaps we will understand more clearly what Dziga Vertov said: ‘we must organise a collective production (of the image) that will help us to represent events from within’.

The video will be accompanied by an intervention by Norma Mor, who will comment on it and relate it to a contemporary panorama of the transvestite and drag scene in the local context.