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

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     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 and performances on topics including the decriminalization of sex work, trans epistemology, post humanity, the pharma industry, and others.
   

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

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

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

   200 x 60cm, epoxy resin, plastic chains

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

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   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”.

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

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     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

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