Guillaume Dustan (1965–2005) wrote eight books between 1996 and 2005. They are now translated in English by Semiotext(e) since 2021. Between 2000 and 2004, he shot 19 films, completely independently, and reflected seriously as to their distribution. In his last book Premier Essai, to accompany his filmography, he specifies: “My films are shot according to the Warholian dogma on DV with a very nice little Sony camera which produces a very strange image quality, without credits, with live sounds, with no editing. They’re shot-edited.” The films were never screened during Dustan’s lifetime, and only occasionally following his death. They were restored in 2019 and circulated through a series of retrospective film screenings and exhibitions thanks to the work of Julien Laugier, Pascaline Morincôme and Olga Rozenblum with Philippe Joanny and Tim Madesclaire. Guillaume Dustan also created the collection “Le Rayon” for Éditions Balland, through which he published more than 60 novels and few seminal works written by queer people, between 1999 and 2003.

Rafael Sánchez is a Cuban born visual artist working in New York City. His work explores themes of transformation, existing intimately alongside his lived experience and in frequent collaboration with fellow artists. His paintings and sculptures often integrate what he terms "conductive" materials such as honey, medicine, dirt, driveway sealer, foundation make-up, etc. with traditional painting and sculpture methods. In his performances, in which friends and colleagues often star, inert objects are animated, coinciding the magical and the scientific, while glamour, music, and theater are freely celebrated. In the 1980’s Sánchez was a founding member of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ. He is Creative Capital recipient and a Visual AIDS artist member. Performances have been presented at Ex-Teresa, Mexico City; Foundation ELBA, Nijmegen, NE; Fruit Farm, McMinnville, OR; and Jackie 60, Thread Waxing Space, and Participant Inc, in NYC. Recent exhibitions include Martos Gallery, Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art; Kerry Schuss Gallery, NYC; HOUSING, NYC; Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf; Marlborough Contemporary, NYC and Artists Space, NYC. Rafael Sánchez is represented by Martos Gallery, NYC.