CURRENT MISSION

not to take anything for granted. challenging every assumption. questioning everything, and, still, being a radical optimist. trying to find out different possibilities of living and creating, more inventive and unique, less ready made. trying to spend more time closer to the nature, listening to non human sounds. letting transformations happen. making space for unlikely encounters. discovering the liminal spaces in between and beyond every boundary.

ABOUT ME

perhaps before anything, I should say I am a compulsive traveller, perhaps a pilgrim. I don't have a fixed home. I've been living a nomadic life for more than six years - I realized that living and working in different places is my favorite way of living and creating. It means being alert, learning all the time, sliding along the Unknown University (Universidad Desconocida), about which Roberto Bolaño tells us about: the hidden tread that secretly lead our paths, giving us signs of alert that we need to notice. life is a place of constant, unstoppable experimentation. I usually jump right into what I don't know, without guarantees. cannot live without adventure and mystery, cannot be in the same place for a long time.

((and yes: in case you get confused by the profusion of different names and pronouns in my references - I am transgender.))

PHILOSOPHY

'alterity, we're told, is non linear. the other side of this coin, however, is to assume that life is lived authentically on the spot, in places rather than along paths. yet how could there be places, I wondered, if people did not come and go? life on the spot surely cannot yeald an experience of place, of being somewhere. to be a place, every somewhere must lie on one or several paths of movement to and from places elsewhere. life is lived, I reasoned, along paths, not just in places, and paths are lines of a sort. It is along paths, too, that people grow to know the world around them, and not only the boundaries in which it is contained '

(copied of 'Lines, a brief history', by Tim Ingold)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Since I've been living for so many years without having a home, and travelling is not something I do occasionally, but really my way of living, you might already imagine that couchsurfing really helps me a lot during my journeys, in between the time I spend in artistic residencies and festivals, living temporarily with friends, camping in the nature and/or volunteering. Couchsurfing allowed me to have memorable conversations and lovely, heartwarming encounters with people with different backgrounds and experiences, who I probably wouldn't get to know otherwise. In this world in which almost everything can be turned into a commodity, the fact that so many different people are still willing to open their houses to a stranger gives me so much hope in humanity. I cannot be grateful enough.

Interests

I am addicted to writing (mostly poetry), I make vocal experiments in strange tunes, as well as (quite experimental) performances and videos. and , well, maybe I should confess that, though I studied philosophy, I could also somehow call my self a mystic (messed up with astrology and yoga and meditation and shamanism) who decided not to let go of his critical (and political) thinking.

• arts
• literature
• performing arts
• vegan
• yoga
• meditation
• movies
• traveling
• music
• gender studies
• history
• languages
• religion
• activism
• philosphy

Music, Movies, and Books

oh wow, I used to have such a long long boring list of names of bands and authors and books around here. I am a compulsive reader. literature basically changed my life when I was still an extremelly shy teenager who could not really make any sense of his place in this world. some of my favorites: dostoievsky's novels, the devil, by marina tsvetaeva, the magic mountain, by thomas mann, 2666 and the savage detectives, by roberto bolaño, grande sertão veredas, by guimarães rosa, everything by kathy acker. and poems by anne sexton and allen guinsberg and fernando pessoa and maiakovski. and the writings by ludwig wittgenstein and paul preciado.

and, of course! rock from time to time saves my life. there are so many bands and magical voices: velvet underground, iggy and the stooges, david bowie, roxy music, sonic youth, patti smith, pj harvey, jesus and mary chain - - and well, if I don't stop this list won't end.

and - cinema! I used to be an absolute cinephile before I started living this nomadic life - guess it was through the screens that I first started to travel. now I don't have that much time to watch movies (since my life became a road movie of its own), but cinema is still one of my passions. So, how could I forget movies like the passenger, by antonioni, hiroshima mon amour, by alain resnais, stalker, by tarkovski, blue velvet, by david lynch, crash, bycronenberg and (wow ) sans soleil, chris marker - - (another list that could not end)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

travelling blindfolded all along the sao francisco river, in brazil
getting lost swimming in the amazon forest
selling all my things and hitting the road with no return

Teach, Learn, Share

I can give ashtanga yoga and astrology classes

What I Can Share with Hosts

A friend of mine recently told me that the italian word for 'host' and for 'guest' is the same: and I marvelled with the discovery, since it somehow relates a lot with what I feel. Because yes: I think that, whenever I am hosted by someone, I try somehow to host them at the same time, should they be interested in getting to know a bit of my universe. that is especially true because, being a nomadic person, I carry my ivisible house-bubble all around with me.

also: I am quite fond of long, philosophical conversations.
I can make you a tasty vegan dinner and I can also read your astrological chart and/or put tarot to you, should you be curious to try.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Uruguay