Nadie aquí es ilegal (Here No One Is Illegal)

INVASORIX (formed in 2013; based in Mexico City, Mexico)
"Nadie aquí es ilegal (Here No One Is Illegal)" 2014
Digital video (3:06 min.)
INVASORIX (cc) by-sa 4.0

INVASORIX is a feminist/queer working group that produces publications, performances, songs, and videos to imagine alternative ways of inhabiting the planet and relating to each other. In their projects, they are committed to collaboration and solidarity as a way of facing the current state of things in society.

Here No One Is Illegal invites us to imagine other possible worlds. Recorded in Cerro de las Navajas de Nopalillo in Hidalgo, Mexico, the video captures a series of individual and collective movements, carried out by the members of the group, to the rhythm of the song that gives the video its name.

Calling for desire, pleasure, and freedom, the video shows the play of bodies that coexist, interact and support each other by executing push-ups, pirouettes and various other movements. The ethereal music and the landscape, in combination with the colorful costumes, give the work a spatial, extraterrestrial quality. The video calls for the care and recognition of the dignity of all the people on the “(she) planet,” as the group calls it. The lyrics of the song advocate listening and respect for others, and point out that no one is illegal here, no one is normal, and that pleasure must be shared to fight.

Against the background of the control exerted by capitalism, the rules of hetero-patriarchal society, the violence and racism that prevail today, as well as the great environmental crisis of our days, INVASORIX reminds us with humor and a strong, playful spirit that another world is possible—a horizontal world, which fits all the bodies and universes of all the people on the planet. This call takes on great force and becomes more urgent and necessary today than ever.

By Esteban King Álvarez (based in Mexico City)