Looking into the eye of the process: Intercultural art activism trans*/lations and intersex/tions in the Global South

Collaborative artistic-activist (or artivism) practices can bring strong articulations of lived experiences regarding processes of oppression and empowerment in contemporary societies, from a situated perspective, leading to the building of effective strategies for collective organised action towards social change and justice (Sholette, 2011; Love and Mattern, 2014). Through analysing the collaborative works of trans* and intersex activists for human rights in the Global South with artist for social justice Gabrielle Le Roux, this Article will explore effective/affective horizontal engagements through artivism working methods. These collaborative projects gravitate toward an exchange of gazes. As Le Roux recounts, it is about “looking into the eye” of people as a dispositive to recognise them as the main teachers and experts of their lived experiences. This Article will also enquire if such situated interactions may lead towards processes of social awareness, intercultural dialogue and cultural ex/change. It will also analyse the effects of these works in challenging dominant narratives as well as mainstream stereotyped media representations of trans* and intersex populations from the Global South.