LGBTIAQ+ Programme 2023 and Connective Tissue. The Museo Reina Sofía’s Study Programme: Critical Node, Dissident Bodies
confession and the activation of body and music
artist Frau Diamanda looks to explore the mutation of transvestite identity
punctuated by questions of class and race and affected by (neo)colonisation and hyperbolic exaltation
spoken word and live music to approach the concept of transvestiteness in a way that is immersive and expansive
and with the aim of moving the spectator closer to that which is considered strange or far from their day-to-day
approaches issues such as migration and mutability from transvestite logic and becomes a political statement of sexual dissidence
The artist gives a voice to the subaltern subject
banished to the margins of a heteronormative society
tracing a spatio-temporal line based on fictionalisation
The encircling reality is concealed with forms that are exaggerated and camp
alternative experiences which extol escape
Lines of flight which are necessary to disclose her particular way of conceiving the world and to reveal a political dimension which demands the historical repair of memory and socio-cultural insertion
the piece has been conceived as a kind of introspection which
can reveal communication channels and empathy with the spectator to demonstrate how we are all
DJ and occasional actress who defines herself as a “cultural infector”
Specialised in transgender and multimedia performance
Diamanda completed the Independent Studies Programme (PEI) at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) in 2017–18
She is the author of the book Escenas Catalanas: errancias antropológico-sexuales (La Máquina
electronic music and multimedia platforms and is concerned with the (mis)match between bodies and architectures
and the forms of uniting the fluidity of desire and the sexualisation of spaces through a gaze of dissidence or transvestite sexual disobedience
Activity of: Phobia: Politics of Hate and Fear in and towards LGBTIAQ+ Collectives
Collaboration with different agents and international political and cultural collectives
A confederation of artistic internationalism made up of seven European museums