ABSTRACT
In the attunement to its communal precedence the body ceases to be reducible to the present of individuality and opens itself up to its relationality. Whereas transcendence marks a relation to the beyond the world outside time, into eternity, and immanence speaks of a relation contained within the materiality of presence, precedence speaks of a mode of being in the world in time. By putting Trans* and decolonial thought in conversation through performance, resistance comes in the form of a racialized Trans* body that breaks open the bounds of colonial signifiers and cartographies across the body canvas. Practices of decolonial embodiment challenge the boundaries of individuality; they should not be confused with the performativity of individual identities. Decolonial embodiment enacts relational temporalities and transgresses the reality principle of modern metaphysics. Decolonial aesthesis dwells in the open hiatus of the colonial wound, in which the precedence of coloniality bleeds.
