Conversation between Frau Diamanda and Diego Marchante

As a prologue to the performance Chorus/Body, part of the project Extramural – Dora García: Timelines / resurrection, taking place on the same day at the Plaça Margarita Xirgu, Frau Diamanda and Diego Marchante will offer an open conversation with the aim of introducing some of the theoretical, political and conceptual lines of thought found in the new issue of the journal Convit/e, to be released in the autumn.

The encounter addresses issues related to the history of trans struggle and its convergence with other struggles, the metaphor of resurrection as justice in the face of the structural violence of cisnormative discourses, collective bodies and tensions between community, identity and dissidence. These issues, which are key for the publication as well as for the performance to follow, will work as the starting point for a shared reflection on the possibilities of constructing community and contemporary forms of resistance and mutual support. This space for dialogue is conceived as a contextual opening to Chorus/Body, providing the public with the tools and perspectives to enable comprehension of the performative experience.

Convit/e is a publishing project initiated by the social production group Mescladís, under the artistic direction of Dora García, and in collaboration with the Museu Tàpies. The journal proposes a space for critical thought and experimentation in relation to contemporary artistic and social practices.

Frau Diamanda

Writer, translator, transvestite audiovisual artist, drag performer, independent curator, arts administrator, DJ and occasional actress. She has specialised in transgender art and multimedia performance. She followed the Independent Study Programme (PEI) at MACBA from 2017 to 2018, and has published the books Escenas catalanas. Errancias antropológico-sexuales (La Máquina Barcelona, 2020) and Sexual Dissidences: Frau Diamanda’s Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance and Anti-Canonical Knowledge (Stenberg Press, 2025). Her artistic interests also include photography, video, installation, spoken word, electronic music and net art.

Diego Marchante “Genderhacker”

Transfeminist activist, transmedia artist and teacher. With a doctorate in Fine Art from the University of Barcelona, since 2008 he has lectured in Audiovisuals and Gender Studies at the University of Barcelona Faculty of Fine Art. His art work has been exhibited at CaixaForum, Fabra i Coats, Sala d’Art Jove, CCCB, MACBA and the Museo Reina Sofia. He has published various texts in books including Transfeminismos. Epistemes, fricciones y flujos (2013), Barbarismos queer y otros esdrújulas (2017), New (ego). Cuerpos conectados (2021) and Glossary of Common Knowledge Vol. 2 (2022).

A proposal by the Tàpies Museum and Mescladís.

Photo1: Cecilia Gamarra / Photo 2: Genderhacker