Transnógrafia

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Abstract

Transnography is an experimental language created by brazilian trans artists and researchers Ronna Freitas de Oliveira and Nicolau Andreass during the Transancestrality Artistic Residency (ProAC nº 15/2024), which proposes new materialities and visualities for writing. Using primarily knots and colors as elements of meaning, the technique transforms the act of writing into an artisanal and sensorial process. More than a code, it constitutes a pedagogical and performative procedure that claims symbolic and aesthetic autonomy for trans trajectories, challenging hegemonic regimes of representation and archiving. Operating between art, research, and activism, Transnography questions what is considered legible and who defines the norm, proposing a writing of opacity (Glissant, 2008) and encryption. The technique is linked to epistemic disobedience and the invention of self-determined languages, rejecting colonial transparency and affirming the power of escape and mystery. As a social and aesthetic technology, Transnography approaches the understanding of gender transition as a creative and political practice, one that produces new ways of being, inhabiting the body, and rewriting the world. Thus, it not only records but also invents and symbolically protects transepistemic knowledges, creating an alternative grammar that transforms body and language into territories of resistance, memory, and collective futurity.