
Luan Okun
Luan Okun, Non-binary Trans, born in Ituiutaba, in the western part of the state of Minas Gerais, Luan Okun began their artistic studies in 2014, studied theatre at the Federal University of Uberlândia, where they initiated their artistic and performative productions. Uses bodyexperience as the main tool for art making. Understanding that a gender-dissident, racialized and fat body’s movement stems from the desire and individual strength to break away from the structures that condition our bodies through normativity and colonization. Currently lives in Lisbon, and researches survival methods taking failure, pelvic reconnection and an acknowledgment of the ass’s political, poetic and “asstraordinary” potential as a starting point.