Program

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Friday 24/5 

16:00 - 20:30 Opening/Vernissage Galleri Monitor

17:00 Inauguration of the exhibition

18:00 Reading by Cyd Nova

18:40 Q&A around sex work and queerness with Julian Curico and sex workers who are part of Tove Pils ongoing project

 

Saturday 25/5

12:00 - 16:00 Exhibition Galleri Monitor

 

Sunday 26/5

12:00 - 20:30 Exhibition Galleri Monitor 

15:30 Lunch talk with artists and soup

16:30 Short films 1 

18:00 Panel discussion about sex work in film/art. 

Participants: Julian Curico and sex workers who are part of Tove Pils ongoing project. Moderator: Tove Pils

19:20 Short films 2

 

Sunday there will also be vegan soup from 15:30 that you can have between or before the films.

 

The short film program and the discussion will be in Bio Valand. Which you reach through Galleri Monitor

 

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Short film program

 

Short films 1

 

Lucid Noon Sunset Blush 

by Alli Logout 

 

17 December International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers 

by the organisation Kırmızı Şemsiye - The Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association is a sex worker led organisation in Turkey

 

Honey bee 

by Empower Foundation - sex worker organisation in Thailand

 

Mirha Soleil Ross' Gut-busting, Ass-erupting & Immoderately Whorish compilation tape! 

by Mihra-Soleil Ross 

 

Work in progress 

by Tove Pils

 

 

Short films 2

 

The Honeybringer 

by Vincent Lee and Claire Havell

 

All That Sheltering Emptiness 

by Joey Carducci and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

 

Profile: Kevin 

by Matt Lambert

 

Making the sex worker opera by 

By Anna Wistreich

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Organizers and artists/filmmakers: 

 

Tove Pils

Tove Pils is a student at the master program in film at Academy Valand and the initiator and curator of the event. Tove has been working on a documentary about queer sex workers in San Francisco for many years and before they graduate they want to take the opportunity to show work from artists, sex workers and filmmakers that has inspired or teached them things about sex work, as well as fragments from their own work. Tove has previously directed the short film PUSH ME 

www.pushmefilm.com

 

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SAQMI

The Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images are compiling the history of queer moving images and storing it all in one place. A history that has been marginalized through oppression and self-censorship. Through methods such as documentation, interviews, archiving, screenings, presentations, workshops and discussions, the first platform of queer moving images in Sweden is created. 

https://saqmi.se/

 

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Cyd Nova 

Cyd Nova moved to the US from Australia 11 years ago with the earnings from stripping, and now is transitioning out of sex work after graduating from school paid for with blow jobs.  He is currently supporting efforts to decriminalize prostitution in New York, is the Director of FTM gay porn site Bonus Hole Boys and was a previous Programs Director at St James Infirmary - a clinic for current and former sex workers. His writing on trans life, sex and politicized bodies has appeared in Policy Mic, The Rumpus, Tits and Sass, Pretty Queer Visual AIDS and his fiction has been published in Nerve Endings, The Collection: The New Transgender Vanguard, Prose and Lore, and How to Come Out Like a Porn Star!

www.cydnova.wordpress.com/

 

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Julian Curico

“I find definitions sometimes tricky and from my experience the video work is considered as either art or porn and I am not opposed to either definition. The intentions that go in to my work is not to arouse the audience, but the arousal is a welcomed reaction!”

 

Julian is an artist, filmmaker, fetish and cruising club organiser and sex worker based in Berlin. To Julian, creating sex positive images is a collaborative process based on consent and interest. This interest can vary and as a director and facilitator of explicit scenes he sees it as his responsibility to try to understand how he can meet the individual desire the people who take part in his project. He aims to create an intentional space where all participants, including himself, can explore freely within a structured setting. Some wants to be directed, others direct themselves or improvise through play. He finds it interesting to try to expand the notion of what sex is and can be, and feels a need to challenge restrictive norms of decency and to create a space where sexuality is valued outside of judgement and shame.

https://www.instagram.com/juliancurico/?hl=sv

 

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Fuckförbundet

Artists who are members of the Swedish sex worker organization Fuckförbundet will exhibit some of their artwork. Fuckförbundet is an organisation by and for sex workers founded in 2017.

https://www.fuckforbundet.com/english 

 

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Charlotta Öberg 

Charlotta is currently a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In her practice she is questioning power structures and restrictions in the society such as norms of behavior, norms of being heterosexual and norms of being successful and healthy. She explores the feelings these norms create and investigate how you can fight the structures by doing. What can come inside the hard plastic surface these norms create? What underlying desires are there and which desires does it create? 

 

Right now Charlotta is interested in the tabu of the anus and her own fear about the topic. She wants to create a space for taking care of the anus and put it on the agenda in a playful way to give it attention and loosen up tensions around the topic.

www.charlottaoberg.se

 

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Karl Hedin

http://tv-video.se/

 

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Gabrielle Le Roux in collaboration with Trans Activists in Turkey

The film in the exhibition is part of the video installation project proudly trans in Turkey. The project is a cultural intervention for social justice which combines portraits drawn from life, first-person stories, interviews and video. It is a call to solidarity with the trans rights movement in Turkey. It is a co-creation between Turkish activists and South African artist and activist for social justice Gabrielle Le Roux.

Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers 

APNSW is  a regional network working to promote and protect the health and human rights of sex workers in the Asia Pacific region

https://apnsw.info/contact-us/

 

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Juli Apponen

Juli Apponen is an artist and she works

 

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Vamp

VAMP, an abbreviation of Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad, is a collective of 5,000 women in sex work in Maharashtra and North Karnataka. Since 1990, they have been working on issues of health and human rights of sex workers. They serve as a model of a strong sex workers collective in the region, at the local, national, and international level. Importantly, VAMP along with its own constituency of people in sex work, also works with transport and migrant workers in the region. https://www.sangram.org/

 

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Swarm collective

SWARM is a collective founded and led by sex workers who believe in self-determination, solidarity and co-operation. We campaign for the rights and safety of everyone who sells sexual services. Together we organise skill-shares and support meet-ups just for sex workers, as well as public events. We are UK based and part of the global sex worker led movement advocating the full decriminalisation of sex work. https://www.swarmcollective.org/

 

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Mirha-Soleil Ross

Performance artist, videomaker, transsexual activist, curator, sexworker. Transplanted Québécois Ross is Toronto’s most visible and prolific transgender cultural voice. The star of the National Film Board’s well intentioned documentary In the Flesh (Gordon McLennan, 2000, 47), Ross’s sixteen or so own video productions have much more raw artistic energy and political bite—“gut-busting, ass-erupting and immoderately whorish,” as she says in the compilation of video excerpts. The tapes, often made in collaboration with Xanthra MacKay and Mark Karbusicky, blur boundaries among document, demonstration, performance, narrative, autobiography, representation... and provocation. From her own personal body, history and experience to the political fields of reproductive technology and animal rights, Ross’s restless art covers a broad landscape of politics and desire. Ross founded Toronto’s “Counting Past Two” trans-arts festival in 1998.

 

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APNSW - Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers

 

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Empower Foundation 

Empower is a sex worker organisation in Thailand

We are sex workers. We are workers who use our brain and skill to earn an income. We are proud to support ourselves and our extended families. We look after each other at work; we fight for safe and fair standards in our industry and equal rights within society. We are a major part of the Thai economy, bringing in lots of tourist dollars. We are active citizens on every issue… politics, economics, environment, laws rights, etc. we try to find a space in society to stand up and be heard. Some see us as problem makers, but actually we are part of the solution. We are sex workers; We are Empower

http://www.empowerfoundation.org/index_en.html

 

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Vincent Lee

Vincent Lee is a video activist and Film-maker, although working primarily with film and video. He is Interested in collaborative video projects, socially conscious film, documentary, docufiction, 

Vincent Lee also has an extensive experience in various grass-roots community organisations and groups, some of which have been the core subjects of his films.

 

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Kırmızı Şemsiye 

Kırmızı Şemsiye - The Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association is a sex worker led organisation in Turkey

http://www.kirmizisemsiye.org/

 

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Alli Logout

Alli Logout is a video, sound, and performance artist from the middle of nowhere, Texas. Currently based in New Orleans, Logout’s drive to create is fuelled by the construction, and destruction of identity: What does it mean to be a black queer person from the South?

 

Looking specifically at trauma as the shape that black and queer reality has been molded to, Logout strives to bridge the gap between the media’s perceptions of these identities, and who these individuals (such as themself) truly are. 

 

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Matt Lambert 

Matt Lambert is a Berlin-based filmmaker and photographer whose work often explores themes of queer identity and expression of intimacy

 

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Anna Wistreich

Making The Sex Workers Opera

The Sex Worker’s Opera is a multimedia production written and performed by sex worker artists and their friends. Breaking through stigma and stereotypes with music spanning from Opera to “Hip-Hopera”, incorporating sound art, projections and poetry. It offers an unflinchingly honest, upliftingly human insight into the lives of sex workers around the world. 

https://sexworkersopera.com/

 

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Every Ho I Know Say So was a community collaboration produced by Lusty Day and Beef Jerky in 2010. The motivation for the project came from seeing similar issues and struggles come up in our relationships and the relationships of our sex worker friends. Navigating romantic and sexual lives while working in the sex industry is a unique and complex experience and we wanted a resource that was made by sex workers that we could direct partners of sex workers to when they needed some support or perspective. We filmed sex workers in our communities over 3 countries, Australia, North America (at the Desiree Alliance Conference) and Canada. Ten years later this resource is still available on Youtube and has nearly 50 000 views.

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