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sex worker art exhibition

March 28 @ 18:00 – March 31 @ 20:30 CET

Sex Worker Art Exhibition

Location: cafe

Times: 28 March, 18:00-23:00 | 29 March, 12:00-22:00 | 30 March, 13:00-20:30 | Entrance: free

Illustrations by Comics Slut (2023-2025, the Netherlands)

A selection of illustrations and prints that explore the weird, the queer and the sexual through a playful and loving approach.

Comics Slut is a lover of pop culture, camp and anything femme. She’s a retired stripper and aspiring indie smut maker. Her work takes inspiration from her lived experiences, but it is essentially romantic fantasies.

Archivo Puta by Maria Riot (2024)

A multidisciplinary project that seeks to create archives of the present and search for archives of the past of sex workers, as well as recover memory, make visible the beauty and resistance of the collective.

Presentation by the artist on Sunday 30 March 13:00-15:00 | Location: Etage | Entrance: donation-based

María Riot (1991) Sex worker for over a decade, sex worker right’s activist, member of AMMAR, the Sex Worker Union of Argentina, Intimacy Coordinator for Adult Films and Artist. Born in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Based in Barcelona, Spain. Author of the photography project Archivo Puta. Curator at Porn Film Festivals and co Organiser of “Putas en Pantalla” (Whores on Films), a selection of short and long films about sex work, screened at Excentrico Fest (Chile), Zumzeig Cinema (Spain) and Post P_rn Arts Fest Warsaw (Poland). Currently working as a scriptwriter and main actress in a documentary about sex work by the acclaimed director Agustina Comedi. Has given talks, interviews and written about sex work politics all over the world.

Step by Step Anal Guide by Miammy (2025, Greece)

An eight page book for straight men who are ready to broaden their horizons of pleasure by trying anal.

Patriarchy is an oppressive system not only for women but for men too. After realizing that, how do you escape? Let’s embrace vulnerability and discover new dimensions of pleasure through your body. The notion that traditional masculinity, with its prohibitions against emotional openness and bodily exploration, limits the pleasure in your everyday life. I believe that men urgently need to embrace vulnerability and this must extend to sex and pleasure. Why miss this type of pleasure? Break free from the cage of gender norms, by allowing yourself to experience pleasure. In this way, you can challenge societal taboos and reclaim your body. This change is not only physical but also societal. You can see it as a heroic action for the world and dismantle this regressive and hurtful legacy with a simple pegging.

Miammy grew up in Greece, studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and Gerrit Rietveld Academie during an Erasmus exchange in Amsterdam. She loves interdisciplinary collaboration, having participated in the transcultural program at Zürich University of the Arts and as a member of the Sinodi Papu Collective. Passionate about exploring people and cultures by traveling the world and Digital space.

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Télétravail du sexe (Remote Sex Work) + Q&A

March 30 @ 17:15 – 19:00 CEST

Télétravail du sexe (Remote Sex Work) + Q&A with the Filmmakers

Location: Zaal | Times: 17:15-19:00 | Tickets €11,25 @ Cinetol

Carmina & Prune | France | 2024 | 73 min | French with English subs

A compelling documentary led by online sex workers, giving us an intimate peek into their daily lives and guiding us behind the scenes. It demonstrates that adult platforms are not only a workplace but also a space of creativity and self-expression, in which many individuals thrive and develop new skills. This challenges the audience’s preconceived ideas and gives them a better understanding of this industry.

With the emergence of new subscription-based adult platforms like OnlyFans or MYM, it has become easier to create and sell adult content from a simple computer or smartphone. This content can range from the most ‘soft’ erotic nude photos to the most explicit pornographic videos. “Télétravail du sexe” (“Remote Sex Work”) is a documentary that gives a voice to online sex workers by following them in their daily lives, thus showing the behind-the-scenes reality. It reveals that adult platforms can be a space for creativity and body expression, where many people thrive daily and develop new professional skills that go far beyond what the general public imagines.

Whether one has chosen this profession out of passion or convenience, sex telework, like many other solitary and independent jobs, comes with its own joys and successes, and empowerment… But also with burnout, isolation, and alienation due to the judgment of others, performance and financial pressure — which is further reinforced by the stigma and censorship experienced on the Internet.

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Cada Vez que Muero (Every Time I Die) + Intro by Papaya Kuir

March 30 @ 15:00 – 16:45 CEST

Location: Grote Zaal | Times: 15:00-16:45 | Tickets: €11,25 @ Cinetol

This film will be introduced by Papaya Kuir: a lesbo-trans – feminist collective created by and for Latin American migrants and refugees residing in the Netherlands and the allies in their struggle.

Raúl Vidales Bohórquez | Colombia, 2022, 92 minutes | Spanish with English subs

A hybrid feature film that blends documentary with fiction and approaches cinema as a ritual of symbolic transformation in the death experience of seven transwomen. The film’s testimonies, along with surreal and fantastic scenes, come together to narrate death viewed from different angles: as related to transfeminicides and as social death that seeks to nullify through exclusion and silence those seen as uncomfortable by others. The film also deals with the multiple deaths that we experience in life; death that speaks of resignations, of forgetfulness, of separations, of changes. “Every Time I Die” is an invitation to shake off mourning through delirious weeping or through sagacious bursts of laughter, with the aim of seeing death through the eyes of those who radiate life, celebrate life, and struggle for life.

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Papaya Kuir

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C€NSWH0RE$HIP

March 30 @ 13:00 – 14:30 CEST

Location: Grote Zaal | Times: 13:00-14:30 | Entrance: €11,25 @ Cinetol

Ronja Berg | Sweden | 2024 | 80 min | Swedish with English subs

A whore goddess in Heaven, a christian police and two sex workers in Sweden are affected in different ways by the whore stigma, when suddenly a mysterious asteroid connects their minds.

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Archivo Puta

March 30 @ 13:00 – 15:00 CEST

Artist talk: Archivo Puta by María Riot

Location: Etage | Times: 12:00-15:00 (including break) | Tickets: Donation (suggested sliding scale €0-20) – online registration required

This infinite project in constant construction aims to unite activism and the political recognition of rights for the collective as well as appeal to the sensitivity that only art can give. She will present her work and talk about the project in more depth.

After more than ten years working in the sex industry, María Riot decides to delve deeply into artistic projects related to sexual work since art and creation is their primary motivation always. One of them is “Archivo Puta”, a project that currently has more than 600 photographs in analog and instant formats.

The project is self-taught and independent, carried out with money earned through sex work that is invested for the films, scans, prints, etc. She believes it is important to give visibility and support to projects like these as a response to classism and elitism in art and to give opportunities to subjects who are not usually part of museums, galleries or first-person narratives in art. Archivo Puta seeks to be exhibited in exhibitions and in the future to become a book of photographs and being part of a short documentary.

“Archivo Puta” is a multidisciplinary project that seeks to create archives of the present as well as recover memory, make visible the beauty and resistance of the collective. Through the photographic project, it aims to create an archive of the present since, due to stigma, many people who engage in sex work decide to hide. Although there are artistic projects about sex work, there are very few made by the sex workers themselves or without a voyeuristic gaze, with ethics and political context. Thus, it seeks to challenge the existing perspective from society towards those who engage in sex work but also the perspective from photography and art in general.

By bringing to the forefront the agency of those portrayed and making visible that the photographers themselves also share the same work activity and stigma, something that does not usually happen in the world of photography, where art, due to its lack of accessibility and resources, is not usually made massively by sex workers and our visual stories and narratives are told by others. The project arises from the need for the world to know the silenced stories of people who are stigmatized, criminalized, and persecuted solely for using sexuality as their work tool. Through the photos, captured in multiple analog formats, the sex workers are portrayed as they wish to be seen. In addition to the photo sessions with sex workers, the project includes photographs of their own world related to sex work and sexuality in their life in general: photographs on porn sets, activism, clients, hotel hallways, herself, kink, desires, fetishes, friendship and lust.


María Riot (September 12, 1991) Born in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Barcelona, Spain. She is a sex worker, sex workers’ rights activist, intimacy coordinator and artist. She is a member of AMMAR, the Sex Workers Union of Argentina. She writes in the media and books and gives talks on sex work, such as the lecture “Bad women: control mechanisms” at the Museum TEA Tenerife in January 2024 in the framework of Fotonoviembre at the International Biennial of Photography. She is a curator of the selection and screening of films about sex work “Whores on Screen: Portraits of sex work in first person” and is currently working as an actress and scriptwriter in a documentary film about sex work with the Argentinean film director Agustina Comedi. She is the author of the photography project “Archivo Puta”, exhibited for the first time at MACBA, Barcelona last December 2023 in the frame of the “108 days” exhibition, by Lydia Ourahmane.

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Whorehouse Cabaret!

March 29 @ 22:00 – March 30 @ 01:00 CET

Location: Grote Zaal | Times: 22:00-01:00 | Tickets: €7,5 – €20 (tiered)

Please arrive on time, we will have a waitlist and will fill to capacity. Ticket holders that arrive after 22:30 may be turned away if we are at capacity.

"We roll out the red carpet for ourselves... whores on the move crack the old established world... a love letter to the sex worker community"

Sex workers from the Netherlands, Belgium, and France perform feats of splendour for our delight!

Dress code: we invite you to dress loudly to create an audience that is celebratory of the sex worker community(whatever that means to you). Cabaret, fetish, whore-ish finery is all welcome!

Sex Workers Who Changed History Fashion Show

By SAVE and Trans Sisters

We roll out the red carpet for ourselves, start the music and our historical fashion show begins! In the media, sex workers are usually depicted as victims, we tell the stories of heroes and heroines. Sex workers who rebelled, who fought for women and queer rights, who fought against slavery. Sex workers who made history!

Based on work by Dutch sex worker, historian and philosopher, Sietske Altink. Read more.

The Sex Workers History Fashion Show is an ongoing collaboration between SAVE and Trans Sisters. See their other scheduled performances here.

The Sewers of Heterosexuality

by Marianne Chargois

In the underground of the triumphant heterosexual world, dissidents develop autonomous economic systems, where toxic masculinities are expressed through alternative sexual practices. The sewers of heterosexuality are overflowing as armies of whores on the move crack the old established world.

[Organisers’ note: the performance takes place in front of a screen depicting images of Marianne’s work in medical BDSM)

Marianne Chargois is a sex worker since 20 years, an activist for sex workers rights through the collective STRASS in France until 2019 and since then through UTSOPI, Belgium. She is the creator of SNAP!, a sex worker festival, and co-organiser of the Brussels Porn Film Festival. She creates performances with materials from BDSM sessions with her clients, in a language that mixes political purpose, humor and obscene images.

Le Bal des Putes (The Hookers Ball)

by Kata Loba with Djombo Goddess, Olivia Verner, Malena and La Baphomette

This show is a 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘅 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆. Through 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗱𝘆, we explore the 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆, the 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 in human relationships and honor the fights for our rights. Le bal des putes is queer and feminist. It is a living art form halfway between play, documentary and cabaret.

Le bal des putes is first and foremost a series of personal accounts. These stories open the door to our worlds, our experiences and our intimacy. Through these stories, we can reappropriate a reality that concerns us all, and in so doing make up for opinions that are all too often stigmatising and uninformed. They are windows into our daily lives, where authenticity is our mainstay. Because we know how difficult it is to talk about sex work without being tempted to either glorify or condemn it.

We put ourselves on stage through a series of stories and real acts. We share our visions, our obsessions, our questions: What does a salary depend on? Why do we want to justify ourselves when we talk about it?  What do we do with our bodies? How do we look at it and accept each other? What will happen when everyone knows that we are whores?

Our testimonies evoke the dynamics of power within sex work. How it is exercised over the body and sexuality, and how it can be the mouthpiece of our feminism. They also evoke the solidarity that exists in this milieu, the way we communicate, train and protect each other. They also evoke the moments that are dear to us, our victories and our joys, our passion and our dedication to this work, our suffering and our personal struggles.

We whores take care of people and we deserve to be treated with the same care and respect as everyone else.

Allies – please consider your position relative to the sex worker community when selecting your ticket amount. We have set a sliding scale to include sex workers, migrants, trans and gender expansive people, and BIPOC community members. If you are a sex worker among these communities and cannot afford €7,5 please contact info@queer.red. A limited number of tickets will be reserved.

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Porn Shorts + Q&A

March 29 @ 16:45 – 18:00 CET

Porn shorts: intro by María Riot + Q&A with filmmakers

Location: Grote Zaal | Times: 16:45-18:00 | Tickets: €11,25 @ Cinetol

This film programme  will be introduced by María Riot: an Argentinian sex worker, sex workers’ rights activist, intimacy coordinator and artist.

Filmmakers will be present for a Q&A following the screenings.

A Quick Fix

Colorblock Films, April Flores Films, Praline Studio | Germany | 2024 | 7 min | English 

Housewife April Flores’ washing machine breaks down. When dykey plumber Manon Praline arrives, April turns on her bimbo charm, and reveals her real intentions. Soon Manon is sliding into April’s velvet robe, and she wants that wrench where?! 

Cane

Bendix Mignon | Germany | 2024 | 5 min

A short queer porn film which celebrates crip sex. It is part of an ongoing (and very practical) research into crip porn, into what it means to fuck with disability and normalcy. It queers the actor and finds agency in our aids. Who assists whom, who grants access? “cane” is an intimate red-hot crip-sexy hip-grinding rhythmic conversation of a person and their cane.

Bang Click Bang

Hardwerk | Germany | 2021 | 17 min | English

Inspired by the sexploitation films of Russ Meyers and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up (1966), HardWerk’s latest gang bang is a slow burning subversion of cinematic tropes that finds the carnal in the camp and the sumptuous in the sleaze. For her first ever gang bang and first facial on film, lead performer Maria Riot and the filmmakers reimagined the figure of the bossy (and generally male) photographer with a much-needed shift on the gender axis, allowing Maria to take the lead in quite literally staging her own fantasy. Here, the line between object, subject and artist can become blurred; men in all their exaggerated machismo can become eager playthings, and the directive cannot go unheeded: look at me.

No Man Like Me

Jaq Quicksilver | USA | 2023 | 4 min | English

“So you’re bicurious…. Big deal. Get online, you can be sucking dick or getting fucked within an hour – if that’s what you really want to do. It’s one of the easiest things on earth to do. …But instead you’re here with me. Let’s explore why that is.

Reclamation

Oran Julius | USA | 2022 | 6 min | English

Three friends gather on the solstice to practice a healing ritual involving messaging, fists, and hot wax. Who says wax play can’t be therapeutic? Reclamation is all about leaning into kink as healing, self care, and community love. Three friends gather on the solstice to practice a healing ritual designed to help them embrace and celebrate their bodies. Together they pamper each other before forming a bond with a very special seal. In Reclamation we celebrate Black bodies, Brown bodies, fat bodies, disabled bodies, hypermobile bodies, chronically ill bodies, and trans bodies. 

Vice Versa 

Julian Curico | France/Germany | 2022 | 20 min 

Dancing towards his prey, Jamal is ready for his long awaited opening…

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Four Chambers Special

March 29 @ 15:30 – 16:15 CET

Four Chambers Special: Various films by Vex Ashley

Location: Etage | Times: 15:30-16:15 | Tickets: €11,25 @ Cinetol

Four Chambers is a name that keeps popping up at every SW and porn festival we visit. So we looked into who is behind this project and it turned out to be the very talented porn performer, director and filmmaker Vex Ashley. With a art school and photography background, as well as digital sex work online, Four Chambers became a project, an idea and an ongoing collaboration with the intention to explore the aesthetic and conceptual potential of pornography as a creative medium for ideas. We handpicked several of their works as examples of some exquisite DIY works with high-end aesthetic production value from a community perspective.

Two of Swords | UK | 2022 | 13 min 

An ancient symbol of the divine masculine, the sword = cock symbolism isn’t exactly subtle here. Recreated with some of my favourite sexually charged tarot imagery from the suit of swords under glowing neon red light. An occult homoerotic Bacchanalia ritual or a sweaty 3am club fuck.

Archetype | UK |  2019 | 13 min

Porn aesthetics and archetypes are fascinating, sex on film has always been innovative, at the forefront of pushing technology and creativity. Being pushed to the margins means you’re forced to make new rules and create your own visions, processes and traditions. Porn world developed its own visual language, signs and semiotics.

This is the first in a new series we’re hoping to continue exploring where we look at traditional Porn stereotypes, archetypes, aesthetics and cliches and how we can explore, subvert or expand them. Exploring some classic archetypes – play fighting, wrestling, leather bars, vests, sweat and skin we were lucky enough to be able to license the perfect brooding Berlin goth gay club soundtrack from Boy Harsher and we were good to go.

A Cyborg Manifesto | UK | 2020 | 5 min

Originally commissioned by The Museum of Sex for the CAM LIFE exhibition, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a visual essay and a personal exploration of a life spent online.

We broadcast our image in cells and pixels across continents, viewed by lenses, pushed through codecs and compression algorithms, adapting new ways to circumvent the physical. Thousands of people every day fuck and fuck themselves broadcast live via webcam. I spent 4 years from 2012-2016 live online, executing a carefully choreographed performance of authenticity – shapeshifting, adapting, morphing. My sex and self monetised for consumption, working for tips. Records of this will outlive me, videos of cam shows ripped, recorded and uploaded on illegal sites, digital time capsules or ticking time bombs. 

Proximity IV | UK | 2015 | 11 min

The Proximity series was really where the project started. It aims to replicate the intensity of a sexual connection by bringing the camera in.

Highlight the intricacies and minutia of sex, things often lost in sex on screen. The closeness of the camera allows for greater focus on breath, sweat, touches that might otherwise be lost. It replicates the experience of a partner. Body parts merge and skin blends. It becomes less about clarity and more about atmosphere and experience. 

about the filmmaker

Vex Ashley is a porn performer, director and filmmaker. After rejecting being demoted to “muse” spending 3 years at art school and getting naked online as a cam girl, Vex started making work as Four Chambers to expand the idea of what sex on film could say, do and be. Vex performs in, directs, edits and produces the Four Chambers project in collaboration with a partner and the performers. She speaks, writes and spends a lot of time online talking about making porn creatively and independently, sex as performance, authenticity, art and pornography, technology and sex, camming, censorship and the music of Joanna Newsom. 

Vex is self taught in film making with an emphasis on collaborative DIY practices; Four Chambers now exists alongside a new wave of creators making contemporary pornographic work from a new perspective. The project remains deliberately ambiguous, rejecting labels for both their films and performers, existing in-between genres of both art and pornography and dismissing the need for a definition of either. Exploring themes of technology, symbolism, mythology and alchemy and their intrinsic intersection with sex and part of the growing decentralisation from traditional adult industry business, Four Chambers is independent, DIY, conceptual, pornography cinema.

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A Guided Qleasure Practice

March 29 @ 16:30 – 19:30 CET

Workshop: A Guided Qleasure Practice Sex Worker Only

By Gia G

Location: Etage | Times: 16:30-19:30 | Tickets: Donation (suggested sliding scale €0-20) – online registration required

In a guided qleasure practice we will research, uncover and practice the relationship we have to qleausure.

Qleasure or queer pleasure breaks boundaries, borders and binaries. There is no norm, no right way, no wrong way, only your way. Qleasure states we are all experts when it comes to our own pleasure, we just need some time and space to figure it out sometimes.

During this practice, we will focus on the individual relationship(s) we have to pleasure. What feels good? What does my body want? How does my head want to be touched, right here, right now? We start this session by grounding in the space, checking in with the others, making some collective agreements, before we go into a guided practice followed by some free play. This workshop is focused on the relationship with your own body, not those of others. The latter is to be explored in the full 4nights series called Pleasure Nights!

This workshop will be in English, is SW-only and offers space for max 20 participants.

GiA G is a queer heaux, spicy performer and model, pleasure activist, facilitator and writer. They dedicate their practice and personal life to seeking, researching and practicing pleasure by helping people connect with their own expertise. GiA G is an infinite learner who continuously builds their knowledge through sex work, books, listening, questioning, workshops, and practicing.

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Double Feature + Q&A

March 29 @ 14:45 – 16:15 CET

Double Feature: Longue Vie Aux Putes & Four Seasons Brothel + Q&A

Location: Grote Zaal | Times: 14:45-16:15 | Tickets: €11,25 @ Cinetol

Longue Vie Aux Putes (Hurrah the Whores!)

Alya Kara | France | 2023 | 45 min | French with English subs

A closed encounter with a stigmatised community, constantly pushed to the margins: independent sex workers. 

This invisibilised community, forced to live hidden because they are not wanted in this society. For them, getting together is more than necessary, it is a matter of survival.

This film has mention of sexual violence and suicide.

4 SEASONS BROTHEL 

Kiddo Leone | Belgium | 2024 | 30 min | French with English subs

As a sex worker, fighting against invisibility is a daily struggle. A longing for witness has impulsed this movie to turn into a kaleidoscopic documentary-vlog. Here’s four sex workers journey from their prep rituals to their after work rituals, passing through their way to work and a work session. 

They testify about their different experiences of coming in, coming out, outing and professional retraining as sex workers. Their multiple experiences are also intertwined with queer and so called non-conform identity. Made with beloved colleagues and a client, four seasons Vivaldi music, to weave a micro archive and constellation of our bright existences. 

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