Timo Tähkänen
Finland °1983
research interests: queer theory, art pedagogy, Care ethics, Aesthetics and Ethics, performance for camera, drawing, Installation Art, Drag, autobiography, Feminist Theory, visual art, Gender studies, listening, alter ego, love, camp, grotesque, queer, queer art, performance
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Timo Tähkänen is a visual and drag artist and a first year doctoral student (2023->) in The University of the Arts Helsinki, The Academy of Fine Arts. In their research, they ask how listening other in a queer body affects their artistic practise. They obtained an MA in Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Art (Finland) in 2014. They graduated as a visual artist from the University of Applied Sciences of South-Karelia (Finland) in 2007. Their artistic research is supported by the Kone Foundation.