Timo Tähkänen is a visual and drag artist and a doctoral researcher (2023->) in The University of the Arts Helsinki, The Academy of Fine Arts. In their research, they ask how listening 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.