Paul B. Preciado
Paul B. Preciado is a writer, philosopher, curator and one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and body politics. Among his various assignments, he was curator of public programs at documenta 14 (Kassel/Athens), curator of the Taiwan Pavilion at Venice 2019 and head of research at Barcelona's Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA).
His books, Manifeste Contra-Sexuel (Columbia University Press); Testo Junkie (The Feminist Press); Pornotopie (Zone Books); Un appartement sur Uranus (Semiotexte and Fitzcarraldo), Je suis un monstre qui vous parle (Semiotexte and Fitzcarraldo), and Dysphoria Mundi (Grasset, Graywolf and Fitzcarraldo) are a key reference for contemporary art and queer, trans and non-binary activism. He was born in Spain and lives in Paris.
FILMOGRAPHY
Orlando, My Political Biography, 2023
El sueño de la sultana (actor), 2023
FILMS SHOWN
One hundred years after Virginia Woolf's Orlando, where the character changes sex, Paul B. Preciado asserts that the world is becoming "Orlandesque" and organizes a casting call for today's Orlandos. This film project explores the transformation of the world in a poetic and political way.