Halfway between a transformation that performatizes the most stereotyped becoming of women and the drag queen as a mythical being, a demigoddess of nightlife, in which transformation rarefies the concept of identity toward other possible genders, Tatu Vuolteenaho (1968, Yivieska), a Finnish transvestite-drag queen, organized a series of underground nighttime parties called Drag Attack from 2013 to 2019 in various gay clubs in Spain. Tatu's happening parties proposed a precarious, do-it-yourself cross-dressing that reclaims the figure of the monster in a shift that goes beyond the subversion of gender binaries to embody a subversion of humans, invoking nonbinary beings that refer to magical, queer, and posthuman figures in relation to art history, pop culture, and recent thought. According to Tatu Vuolteenaho, “Drag queen, drag king, drag freak . . . drag can be anything. We question gender, beauty, race, and condition to the point where spectators can start to wonder...
Drag Attack: The Celebration of the Posthuman Transvestite in the Spanish Party Underground
Andrés Senra has a degree in philosophy from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (2018) and a degree in biological sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid (1993), and he is a PhD candidate in the philosophy program at the University of Salamanca. He is also an artist, researcher, and teacher of the bachelor of arts at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. In his latest artistic research works, he has addressed issues such as recent Spanish economic and cultural emigration, the archive as a work of art, and the political and affective history of the LGTBIQ+ community in Madrid, work for which he received in 2013 a research grant from the National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofía for the project Archivo queer?
Andrés Senra; Drag Attack: The Celebration of the Posthuman Transvestite in the Spanish Party Underground. TSQ 1 November 2021; 8 (4): 548–549. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-9311186
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