Joana Schurr (she/her) is a feminist, queer and pro-sex artist born in March 1997 in Munich. She moved to Porto as a baby and lived there until 2017, year in which she moved to Caldas da Rainha to study Sound and Image at ESAD.cr, and where remained until 2022. Currently, she’s living and working in Berlin.

As a videoartist, she tests the static power, and other possible dynamics of moving images and scenography, wielding them as tools for observation and autobiography. With a confessional approach that exposes her own discomfort on camera, she transforms vulnerability into a medium for self-therapy, creating vivid tableaux vivants that merge the rawness of the visceral with the ethereal and symbolic, in an experimental domain.

Exploring themes of sexuality, trauma, identity, and regeneration, she delves deep into the animal emotional landscapes, seeking to stimulate sensations in the viewer through the convergence of sound, image, and text, rather than through direct comprehension of the subjects being addressed. Her vision often incorporates the use of violent images to evoke strong emotional responses in her audience, especialy among those who have normalized eating animal flesh and products.

In addition to her video art work, Joana is also a member of the Festival Impulso team, an innovative festival that showcases art and music in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. She contributes to the organization and is responsible for filming the events.

EDUCATION

2021 BA Sound and Image, ESAD,
Caldas da Rainha, Portugal




EXHIBITIONS

2023 Live AV and performance with A lake by the mõõn,
Lisbon, Portugal

2022 Showcase at Canal180,
Portugal

2021 Connect Fest,
Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

2021 Caminhos Film Festival,
Coimbra, Portugal

2021 BETACAM,
Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

2021 The Sea is Earth: Celebration of the Portuguese Presidency’s Semester of The Europen Union,
Online, Portugal/Italy

2019 Warm-Up Connect Fest,
Caldas da Rainha, Portugal