Dragging the Drag is an artistic practice, a BA thesis, a workshop format and series of performances by Tiia Kasurinen. In the work, Kasurinen practices the drag queen tradition in order to investigate gender and its cultural construction. Dragging the Drag has given birth to a gender fluid drag queen Vulva T, who mixes both traditionally feminine and masculine characteristics in aesthetics and movement qualities.
The work is inspired from Judith Butler’s performative gender theory. The practice wants to gender-reinfore, empower it’s performer and her audience, and shake up gender stereotypes.
Dragging The Drag believes that drag as an art form can continue to expand; questioning the binaries of gender, movement and performance.