Marcas en la memoria: cartografía sensorial y emocional de una zona de alto impacto en Bogotá

This article reviews the performance “Acción de gracia” (Vividero Colectivo, 2013) and its sensory and emotional exploration of the social dynamics of the Santa Fe neighborhood, such as prostitution and odd jobs as well as ritual and
funerary practices centered around its protagonists – transvestites, transgendered persons, salespeople, musicians and
singers from Cementerio Central – and even ghostly presences such as María Salomé, patron saint of prostitutes, or
trans leader Wanda Fox, murdered in 2009. This neighborhood (where prostitution is legal) is particularly interesting
as a complex entanglement of different kinds of public policies (land use code, cultural patrimony, memory, LGBT), of
citizen movements, memories of popular classes, resistances, marginalities, violences, gender dissidences, attempts of
control, inclusion experiments and dreams of urban modernization.