Will Fredo / Sexual Healers TV, 2020, 67 Min/ D / PT / Installation

Sexual Healers TV was founded by Will Fredo as a platform to explore and engage with the dynamics of the sex industry and its transactions and effects on the individuals involved in it. As a researcher, he questions the system that creates and enables this apparatus, which is both supported by and marginalized by society. In his own words, "SHTV is a "pro-heaux*" art platform that deals with biopolitics and sex work. Through his research on the sex industry in America and interviews and performances with two sex healers, the semi-fictional video installation addresses an intersection of issues including the subjectivities and rights of sex workers, technology as a tool to democratize pleasure, Black trans body politics, decolonization of the art industry.

Will Fredo is a non-binary artist, writer, and editor who explores power dynamics, cultural dislocation, and the intersections of pop culture. Born in Portugal of Guatemalan and Cape Verdean descent, Will now lives in Berlin, Germany. Since 2017 he has been the deputy editor of Contemporary And, an art platform focused on African perspectives.

*pro-heaux: Derived from the more colloquial pro-hoe. (Spelling changed to reflect difference and refinement). Black or brown women's rights activists - women and femme, cis or trans - who are pro-sex and/or sex workers and support sex workers' rights.

Julia Kater and Guilherme Peres / Anos de noite / Years of nights, BRA 2020, 3:48 Min.

Anos de noite / Years of nights by Julia Kater and Guilherme Peres is a film work shot in 35mm and produced as a video. The work is enigmatic and hermetic like its formal aspects but still relates to our Zeitgeist. This dream or nightmarish situation explores the effort to decimate some creatures which proved in the end to be unattainable. All that is done while reciting text from the theater piece Amédée, or How to Get Rid Of It by Eugène Ionesco which deals with the effort to eliminate a problem long neglected that is currently taking up all the available space.

Julia Kater holds a bachelor’s in Pedagogy PUC/SP and Graduate Studies in Psychomotricity at ISPEGAE, OIPR Paris/France. Kater's artistic practice "is guided in the elaboration of a work that can be about its visual improbability." Recent exhibitions and festivals: Mutatio, Garage Amelot, Paris, France; Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, SIM Galeria, São Paulo; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Palazzo Rossini, Venice; Ragusa Foto Festival, Italy; 13 edition Experiments in Cinema Festival, Alburquerque, USA; Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. Guilherme Peres is a video artist and editor. In the last five years he has developed short films that have been shown in art exhibitions and international film festivals. Previous collaborations with Julia Kater include "Pitch Black," "Inertia" and "That Which Watches Us." Both live in São Paulo, Brazil.

Dudu Quintanilha / video about, 2020, 43 Min. / D

video about explores the possibility of using the body and its performance among people as a language. More than ever, we are constantly questioned in different situations. In "video about" Quintanilha uses the institutions and their spaces to activate a performative situation. Using a questionnaire and the answers No, Yes and Maybe, he choreographs images to evoke a social behavioral phenomenon.

Dudu Quintanilha studied at Art Academy IUNA, Buenos Aires and currently attends the Städelschule, Frankfurt. He is based in Frankfurt am Main. In 2015 he created Mexa with Anita Silvia, in São Paulo, a transitioning group of people with whom they work on vulnerabilities and social complexities such as diversity and tolerance, using performance and writing mainly. There he also created with Luisa Cavanagh, Eterno Work in Progress, a cinema club. His works were shown at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2019, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels 2018; Bienal de Performance New York. He is an Argentine Brazilian artist, born in São Paulo in 1987.

Jeremy Shaw works in a variety of media to explore altered states and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to map transcendental experience. Often combining and amplifying strategies of verité filmmaking, conceptual art, music video and scientific research, he creates a post-documentary space that complicates expectations of the moving image as a form of testimony. Shaw has had solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris, MoMA PS1, New York, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, and MOCA, Toronto, and been featured in international surveys such as the 57th Venice Biennale, and Manifesta 11, Zurich. In 2016 he was awarded the Sobey Art Award and in 2018 was artist-in-residence at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Tate Modern, London. He grew up in Canada and now lives in Berlin

Carina Bukuts is an editor, writer and curator. She studied art history and philosophy at the Goethe-University Frankfurt. She joined frieze magazine in 2018, where she works as an editor. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online art and culture magazine PASSE-AVANT. Her writings have appeared in numerous publications and artist monographs. She lectured at Kunsthochschule Mainz and worked at Goethe-University Frankfurt, where she supervised the exhibition project and seminar Studiengalerie 1.357. She curated exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv; Frankfurt Airport, among others, and is organizing an exhibition in the public space of Berlin-Charlottenburg together with curator Liberty Adrien in summer 2021. She grew up in Santa Barbara, USA and now lives in Berlin.

Saul Judd is an independent curator based in Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2010 he has been responsible for the video art section of the LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International. He conceived exhibitions with artists such as Keren Cytter and Mike Bouchet in the context of the festival until he created the LICHTER Art Award in 2011. He started to curate the LICHTER Short Films International program in 2015. Among his projects BLANK SLATE a publication about art, architecture and design he started in 2016 with SCHAUT! - a series of exhibitions of contemporary art film and video art at the MAL SEH’N movie theater in Frankfurt. In 2017 he presented the artist John Skoog as a guest curator for Double Feature at Schirn Kunsthalle.