Dr. Diego Marchante
Period active: 2020 – Now
Diego Marchante “Genderhacker” (Pamplona, 1984). Transfeminist activist, transmedia artist and lecturer. Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, since 2008 he works as a professor of Audiovisuals and Gender Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. In 2011 he published Archivo T. A transfeminist and queer archive (http://archivo-t.net), an archive of social movements and artistic practices that have addressed gender issues in the Spanish context from a queer and transfeminist perspective. His work has been exhibited at Can Felipa, Caixaforum, Fabra i Coats, Sala d’Art Jove, Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona CCCB, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia MNCARS. In 2020-21 his project Gendernaut. Queering the 90’s (http://gendernaut.net) has been selected in the call for research stays at the MNCARS, in the context of the project Our Many Europes – Europe’s critical 90s and The Constituent Museum (OME), beneficiary of the Educational, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Union, organized by the network of European museums L’Internationale. He has published several texts in various books such as Transfeminismos. Epistemes, fricciones y flujos (2013), published by Editorial Txalaparta, Barbarismos queer y otros esdrújulas (2017), by Editorial Bellaterra, and Smagliature Digitali. Corpi, generi e tecnologie (2018), by the Italian publishing house Agenzia X Edizioni.