Alegría González was born in Asunción, Paraguay, in 1995. She is currently working as an independent photographer and starting in the audiovisual area. She is completing a Bachelor of French Language at the National University of Asunción. She has carried out various workshops on visual narrative, photography and writing in Asunción and Buenos Aires.

Alegría González-Planás

Artist.

Adriana Peralta is a visual artist and has also worked independently for seven years as an illustrator, graphic designer and art director. Within her creative explorations, there is an underlying interest in linking artistic practice with research on issues of gender and feminism, which emerges from her specialization in sociology. Both the erotic and the representation of stages of the subconscious associated with anxiety and its relationship with the inner world are recurring themes in her work, as well as portraits of imaginary beings –mostly female– that shed light on taboo subjects within the hetero-patriarchal social discourse, such as mental health, desire and intimacy.

Adriana Peralta

Artist.

Jazmín Ruíz Díaz is a Paraguayan journalist, writer and researcher based in London, where she is studying the second year of her PhD in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. Her doctoral work draws on more than ten years of experience in the media, specifically in the editorial area, where she has worked as a writer, sub-editor, editor and currently a freelance writer. Her interdisciplinary areas of interest include gender issues, intersectional feminism, visual culture, creative industries, digital cultures, and sociology of fashion.

Jazmín Ruíz Díaz

Artist.

I was born on the internet, in 1991. IP Asunción, Paraguay. Current IP, Buenos Aires. I am building myself with pixels, from the excess of stimuli. I am learning to use technology to reprogram myself and to program other realities. I know that each platform is shaped by an ideology. I want to contribute to the decentralization of hegemonic social networks and freedom of expression. I identify myself with saturation and permanent transformation. I like to go into a trance with loops. I don't trust mantras that promise to destroy things. I believe in transmutation, in non-binarism and in the reprogramming of algorithms.

Naitsirc Ortsac

Artist

Bastión Moral, a trans nderentendei pedrojuanino artist who conducts research on the relationship of the female body assigned at birth with compulsory womanhood. Studying anti-beauty and invisible violence processes. Activist for trans rights in Transitar Paraguay and in the trans-masculine collective LTD. Also a founding member of the non-binary art collective Nderentendei.

Bastión Moral

Artist.

Brune A. Comas, Paraguayan Queer, 28 years old. Researcher of performance, the body and activism. Coordinates a platform for the management and creation of performance projects called Vena Rota (‘Broken Vein’). Since 2016 he has been developing individual and collective work and workshops in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay, among which stands out Cuerpo Político (‘Political Body’), carried out in Asunción in 2019 (Next Generation 2019, Prince Claus Fund).

Brune A. Comas (Vena Rota)

Artist.

Master of Arts and photographer. She studied for a degree in Plastic Arts with an option in Photography from the University of Veracruz, and obtained a Master's degree in Arts from the University of Guanajuato, in the area of Aesthetic Theories. In 2016 she participated in the Contemporary Photography Program (PFC), in the CDMX and in 2020 received the "Diploma in Multiplatform Audiovisual Production" in the Rule. She is a specialist in the photographic slide and color study. She has worked in digital cataloging, optimization and restoration of materials, in institutions such as the Centro de la Imagen and the Bob Schalkwijk studio (2013 and 2020).

Her artistic work is an exploration of the concept of nature and its relationship with the human being. She has participated in international group exhibitions in Great Britain, Lima (Peru), Madrid (Spain), Lisbon (Portugal), Austin (Texas) and La Plata (Argentina). Her individual exhibits are: Cazador de rastros salvajes (2015), Cazador de luz (2017), Light Tales (2018) and La Lente Rota (within Red Foto México 2019, “Mujeres”). She is currently an independent workshop artist.

Pamela Castillo

Artist. Actualmente es tallerista independiente.

Multimedia artist, textile lover, part of the collective "Transhumanxs", participant in various art festivals such as setrAU, Bathaolas remixes, the Residencia Cuarto Aparte (parallel to the Cuenca Biennial), the festival "Cuando las actitudes devienen performance", the project room Arte actual FLACSO, the Arte, Mujeres y espacio público festival, the "CuerpaS" performance festival and the First Hydra MeetUp expo. Student at the University of the Arts, Ecuador. Her work reflects on the ways in which we can communicate with other non-human bodies, from vegetable and digital technologies.

Lupita Quispe

Artist.

Amoral is a multidisciplinary artist who moves between the areas of visual arts, cybernetic performance, fashion and performs as a DJ. In a context in which the existence of a disjointed body is a visionary fiction, sie proposes the image as a genre of non-fiction, which explicitly rehearses the representation of the external eye in an exchange that plays with the possibilities of the gaze as creator of trauma, corrugating expectations that can be generated about identity itself. In hir work sie explores issues around the performativity of gender, social surveillance and the non-binary body.

Sie began hir career in 2018 with CULA performance and the scene of local trans non-binaries and queer artists with whom sie presented performances at the Manzana de la Rivera and the DEKonstrukt party. Sie has also intervened the Drag Party of Envidia Metenes with DJ sets, in addition to Brainwash and sound interventions such as (re/verb/islas), focusing on dark, industrial and twisted sound ranges.

Amoral

Artist.

David Amado was born in Asunción in 1988. Theater artist graduated from the Irún Theater School, he trained as an Architect at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Art of the National University of Asunción. During his years as a university student, he founded the theater company “Teatro Bruto” with which he created numerous works of a rebellious nature and denouncing the university crisis of 2015 onwards. In 2017, he founded the company "La Posdramática" with other experimental theater students, with which he develops unpublished theater works created by the company under his direction. His work "Es sobre nosotros (también)" won the selection of "New creators" of the Festival Crear en Libertad 2018 and was considered by opinion of the Ministry of Justice as a work "of national interest for the construction of memory". In 2019, he won the Edda award for Best Social Theater Play and also received the Edda "Revelation Award".
At the beginning of 2019 his first play "Ahmad Amado", a theater piece on the river, had a great impact on the press and the general public. It is an autobiographical work about two queer boys, one Muslim and the other Mormon, who cross the Paraguay River with the public on board a boat.
Amado is an emerging artist, he acted in works under the direction of Selva Fox, Margarita Irún, Rayam Mussi, Jorge Báez, Paola Irún, among others. His written and directed works were selected for festivals such as "Greenhouse Art, Politics and State” of the Cultural Center of Spain "Juan de Salazar" (in its first edition in 2017) and "Crear en Libertad" (18th edition), with his work "En mi casa todos somos Michael Jackson”. Amado is the author of several urban interventions recognized by the local critic of visual arts. His interventions with projections "Balines de goma" and "NO es galanteo, es ACOSO SEXUAL" on the facades of the Pantheon of Heroes and The Metropolitan Cathedral respectively, gave much to talk about. He continues to train constantly in performing arts workshops and seminars home and abroad.

David Amado

Artist.

Claudia Casarino was born in Asunción. She studied at the ISA of the National University of Asunción and also in the cities of New York and London.
Her works assume a conceptual point of view, reflecting on gender issues and the conscience of the body –placed under tension by borders and forced transits–. Her work deals with interpreting the universe of women as a subject of social transformation.
She has been doing exhibitions since 1998 and has done so in 5 editions of the Mercosur Biennale, in the Art Biennials of Havana, Tijuana, Busan, Cuenca, Curitiba, Algeria and Venice, as well as in the triennials of Santiago and Puerto Rico. She has also presented various exhibitions in galleries, museums and cultural centers in Asunción, Santiago, San Pablo, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Milan, Amman and London, among others.
Her work is included in the collections of the Museo del Barro, the Victoria & Albert Museums in London, IDB in Washington DC, Spencer Museum in Lawrence, the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Gran Canaria and Casa de las Américas in Havana.
She is the director of the Museum of the Migliorisi Foundation, an institution dedicated to the conservation and dissemination of art and design.

Claudia Cassarino

Director of the Museum of the Migliorisi Foundation.

Born in 1979, she has a degree in Art (PUC, Chile), has completed a Diploma in Aesthetics and Contemporary Thought (UDP, Chile) and a Master in Creative Documentary (UAB). She is a Doctor in Audiovisual Communication (UAB), with a thesis on postpornography and transfeminism.
As an artist, she works on collaborative projects that problematize the construction of social imagery and the sources of knowledge, in which she has collaborated with groups of graffiti artists, prisoners and immigrants as part of the production team. Her artistic projects have been exhibited in various institutions such as the National Museum of Fine Arts (Mexico), the Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay), Palacio de La Moneda Cultural Center (Chile), Metropolitan Gallery (Chile), Vladimiro Izzo Gallery (Berlin), CCCB, Macba and Arts Santa Monica (Barcelona), Reina Sofía National Museum (Madrid), Laboral (Gijón), among others. She has participated in meetings and festivals such as Transmediale and Berlin Porn Film Festival (Berlin), Piksel (Norway), VideoVortex (Germany), LabSurLab (Ecuador), TransitioMx (Mexico), IFF (Spain), among others. Her practice moves between criticism and emancipatory pedagogies in formal and informal contexts.
Since 2001 she has carried out independent communication projects on community radio and television, and often publishes in various press and critical thinking media. She has been part of the collective minipimer.tv, and currently of Cooptècniques, a feminist self-employment project that works around technologies.
She is co-organizer of the international and itinerant festival Muestra Marrana, on post-pornography and radical representations of sex. In 2011 she made the documentary "My sexuality is an artistic creation", exhibited at festivals and meetings in more than 15 countries. She currently co-directs the Institute for Porn Studies, along with Francesc Ruíz and Ona Bros.
She published, together with Josefa Ruiz-Tagle, the Enciclopedia del amor en los tiempos del porno (Cuarto propio, 2014; second edition with Trio editorial, 2020) and alone the essay Atrincheradas en la carne – Lecturas en torno a las prácticas postpornográficas (Bellaterra ediciones, 2018). Together with Caroline Betemps, she co-published the book Acá soy la que se fue – Voces sudakas en la europa fortaleza (Tictac ediciones, 2019). She frequently collaborates with various publications and anthologies, such as “Transfeminismos. Epistemes, fricciones y flujos” (Txalaparta, 2013), “Barbarismos queer y otras esdrújulas” (Bellaterra, 2017), “No existe sexo sin racialización” (Ayllu, 2017) and “Cuerpos marcados” (Bellaterra, 2019), among others.
Born in 1979, she has a degree in Art (PUC, Chile), has completed a Diploma in Aesthetics and Contemporary Thought (UDP, Chile) and a Master in Creative Documentary (UAB). She is a Doctor in Audiovisual Communication (UAB), with a thesis on postpornography and transfeminism.
Currently, she is part of the academic direction of the Independent Studies Program (PEI) of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) where she coordinates the area of ​​"Body technologies", and participates in the research group FIC (Fractalities and Critical Research) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She also conducts research at the Hangar Art Production Center, under the title "Metodologías subnormales" with an artistic research grant from the Banco Sabadell-Hangar Foundation.

Lucía Egaña Rojas

Curator.

Graphic designer, university teacher and TLGB militant. He participated in face-to-face and virtual literary workshops by Paraguayan and foreign writers. He collectively publishes since 2008 and launched his first book in 2018: First Stone, underwater gay poetry. Several of his poems were translated into Portuguese, English, and French in electronic magazines and blogs. He thinks of poetry as a bridge to rebuild closeness, that is why he reads, along with other poets from Asunción and Montevideo, ‘poetry in the ear’ in squares and parks, through the action BienCerca: intimate poetry in public places.

Eduardo Barreto

Systematizator.