Curators: Rosa Martínez – Xabier Arakistain
Barcelona 2001. Centre D’art Santa Mònica
Budapest 2002. Mücsarnok Kunsthalle
A Coruña 2002. Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones. Kiosko Alfonso.

Selected Artists: Ana Laura Aláez, Janine Antoni, Vasco Araújo, Monica Bonvicini, Leigh Bowery, Cabello/Carceller, Hsia-Fei Chang, Patty Chang, Carles Congost, Divine David, Tracey Emin, Cristina García Rodero, Miguel Angel Gaüeca, Chris Korda, Oleg Kulik, Elahe Massumi, Priscilla Monge, Nikos Navridis, Rivane Neuenchwander, Ocaña, Henrik Olesen, Ebru Öseçen, Santiago Sierra, Salla Tykka

MÜCSARNOK KUNSTHALLE, Budapest, Hungría.
New artists: Péter Csíkvári, Nagy Kriszta, Németh Hajnal, Joana Vasconcelos

PALACIO MUNICIPAL DE EXPOSICIONES. Kiosko Alfonso, A Coruña, España.
New artists: Xoán Anleo, María Ruido

TRANS SEXUAL EXPRESS aims to go further than the numerous body-centred exhibitions held in the nineties. Here, the body is a veritable battleground, criss-crossed by sex, sexuality, gender, race and class, the global and the local, past and future, centre and periphery. In TSE, subjectivity and the search for equality and solidarity are woven into a biting reflection on the social mores that serve to pigeonhole identities, and in praise of openness to diversity and polymorphism. It is in this connection that we aim to promote difference through a search for equality. To this end, our guest artists from various parts of the world will attempt to show how sex, sexuality and gender issues are linked to ideologies spawned by policies of exclusion designed to maintain the hegemony of some people over others.

TSE focus on the social art formulated by the new sexual, racial and class radicals who question the role models imposed by mass culture, as much as they do the disturbing breakthroughs in biotechnology, while simultaneously developing a polymorphous capacity for re-inventing the human body. TSEB 2001 concerns itself with breaking down the barriers set up by the hierarchical divisions betwen various art disciplines, and with globalisation as the cornerstone of the neoliberal doctrine that seeks to do away with differences through galloping standardisation. In short, TSEB 2001 is billed to be a trans-generational, transexual and transnational exhibition.

The location of the exhibition venue, the Centre d’Art Santa Monica, at the lower end of the Ramblas and near the harbour of Barcelona, lends added value to the exhibition, as the harbour is itself a metaphor for the circulation of products, and because a large number of bars frequented by female, male and transvestites prostitutes and their customers happen to be in the area. Moreover, the proximity of local brothels endorses the artistic exploration of sexual exchanges, and of the yearnings, phantoms and relationships of submission and power running through them. The fact that some of these locales are included as exhibition satellites renders the Centre d’Art Santa Monica walls porous, setting up a flow connecting both inner to outer, and reality to its representation.

After the show in Barcelona, TRANS SEXUAL EXPRESS is touring to Kunsthalle Mucsarnok (Budapest, Hungary) and to Kiosko Alfonso (A Coruña, Spain).

La entrada Trans Sexual Express, A Classic for the Third Millenium, Barcelona, Budapest, A Coruña, 2001-2002 se publicó primero en Rosa Martínez - Independent Art Curator.