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  1. Will Fredo, SHTV, at Mouches Volantes, Cologne, installation view, 2020. Photo by DRose

    Will Fredo, SHTV, at Mouches Volantes, Cologne, installation view, 2020. Photo by DRose

    SHTV is a work cycle dedicated to biopolitics in which dissident bodies are the basis for thought and care. Presented in the accessible format of a TV channel, SHTV includes video works, theoretical texts, performances and other media presented as "episodes" on topics including the decriminalization of body work, trans epistemology, post humanity, indigenous queer ecology, the pharma industry, and others.

  2. Will Fredo, SHTV, at Mouches Volantes, Cologne, installation view, 2020. Photos by DRose

  3. Will Fredo, SHTV: Mega Morbo La Cuerpa Sana (I &II), inkjet prints, 25 x 25cm, 2020

  4. Will Fredo, SHTV: El Último Tour Del Mundo (hang piece), Galleria Fonti, Italy, 2021

    200 x 60cm, epoxy resin, plastic chains

  5. SHTV, sling piece, Videonale19, Kunstmusuem Bonn, 160 x 80 x 80cm, steel, acrylic, leather, 2023

  6. El Último Tour Del Mundo, 39' 38'', 2022, is an episode which consists of a video installation featuring a BTS of OnlyFans star Leo Galileo's last tour in Spain before quitting his performing career. In it they discuss the mainstream sex industry and platform economy in relation to theories of Paul B. Preciado in “Testo Junkie”. Through the capture of the vicissitudes of being on the road and working in the porn industry in Barcelona, the episode engages with multiple aspects of such labor including the healing beauty of camaraderie, fabrication of desire, the extreme demands of the pharmacopornographic industry and the unforgiving realities of capitalism. While the sling-style hanging sculpture is made up of plaques bearing the four principles of SHTV. To “share the blame” in reference to the infamous Berlin sex club Ficken 3000’s slogan which later reincarnated on a Vetements T-shirt. As well as “share the shame”, “share the pain” and “share the gain”.

  7. Will Fredo & Mandhla, SHTV: A History of Desire, live performance, 3hd 2021: Power Play, images by Ink Agop, © Creamcake Berlin, 2021

    Will Fredo & Mandhla, SHTV: A History of Desire, live performance, 3hd 2021: Power Play, images by Ink Agop, © Creamcake Berlin, 2021

    SHTV: A History of Desire
    Performance and video installation, 2021

    This lecture performance with Mandhla investigates the notion of the state-sponsored sex contract in heteronormative culture. Structured like a song, in “A History of Desire” features spoken word, and songs to retell a brief history of desire and biopower from a black trans feminist perspective while connecting the dots between Venus Xtravaganza, bell hooks, Zimbabwean sex workers, Foucault, auction sales in ancient Greece, 90s "Sex Siren" ballroom category, Maroons in the Americas, Samuel R. Delany, Indya Moore, OnlyFans, Eddie Santiago, Donna J. Haraway, Bruce Labruce and Erykah Badu.

    Mandhla is a trans-feminine, gender non-comforming body born and raised in Zimbabwe, Africa. She brings a blend of experimental RnB and soul music intertwined with visual projections and performative dancing. Her music speaks of the daily trials that Trans*, enby and femme* immigrant bodies experience daily with love, identity, sex and acceptance.

    Commissioned by Creamcake Berlin for 3hd “Power Play” 2021

    Styling by Camilla Richter

  8. Will Fredo & Mandhla, SHTV: A History of Desire, live performance, 3hd 2021: Power Play, images by Ink Agop, © Creamcake Berlin, 2021

  9. SHTV: COMMISSIONS INFO 

    SHTV has evolved into a system to create artworks, exhibitions, theory and community, and to support young dissident artists with art commissions. This happens by commissioning artists, via open call, to create works that engage with dissident subjectivity. Some of these are accompanied by critical texts. Find below the relevant links.

    The 2020 SHTV commission was by Mandhla a transfeminine Zimbabwean performance artist and musician based in Berlin

    Mandhla is a trans-feminine, gender non-comforming body born and raised in Zimbabwe, Africa. She brings a blend of experimental RnB and soul music intertwined with visual projections and performative dancing. Her music speaks of the daily trials that Trans*, enby and femme* immigrant bodies experience daily with love, identity, sex and acceptance.

    Watch preview: https://vimeo.com/510634221



    The first 2021 SHTV commission was by Nayare Soledad Otorongx, a Peruvian trans artist based in Madrid

    Although release plays an important function, from a neuroscience point of view healing doesn’t derive from catharsis but rather from microdoses of positive interactions and connection. While the interview might pose as the vehicle that gears towards connectedness, when used within an extrativist framework it does the opposite. Nayare Soledad Otorongx’s video work “La Entrevista” (The Interview) engages with these ideas by featuring several moments of connection between migrant trans women in Spain.

    Read: https://www.gallerytalk.net/sexual-healers-tv-nayare-soledad-otorongx/



    And the second 2021 SHTV commission was by Bruna Kury and Gil Porto Pyrata, two trans artists from Brazil

    Bruna Kury’s “Gentri­ficação dos Afetos” (Gentri­fi­ca­tion of Affec­tions) made in collab­o­ra­tion with Gil Porto Pyrata, starts by drawing links between the toppling of statues of colo­nial male white masters and the erec­tion of statues of Brazilian Black male aboli­tion­ists. Featured in it is also footage of a perfor­mance the artist did in which she erases the line between the human and nonhuman, between herself and cock­roaches.

    Read: https://www.schirn.de/en/magazine/antsy/2022/putting_humanity_on_hold/