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....... This Is Not For Clients....... Collaboration with Letizia Miro
....... 2 channel 4K video with Audio
....... Duration: 11:44
....... 2025 ver Full video available upon request.
....... Content warning: The work contains content of a sexual nature, nudity, and depictions of violence.
.....Full film preview available upon request.
Film credit:
Voice Narration and Creative Text: Letizia Miro // Film, Visual, and Direction: Yarli Allison // Sound Art Composor: Littio X (Ángela Gemio + Alicia G. + Leit Argüello) // Performer: Lea HM // Audio Recordist (first test): Piotr Sell // Audio Editing (first test): Yarli Allison // Sound Effect (first test): Orger Yu // Set + Props: Yarli Allison // Camera: : Yarli Allison // Virtual Reality Dungeon: Yarli Allison // 3D Modelling: Yarli Allison // Post-Production: Yarli Allison // 3D Assistant: Winky Cheung // Color Grading: Yarli Allison and Joy Chao // Created For Decriminalised Futures Project // Initiated By SWARM in partnership with Arika // Supported by Canada Council for the Arts, and Venue + Studio Support Institude of Contemporary Arts: ICA London
..... BELOW: View the installation @ ICA London
..... WORKS THAT WERE PART OF THE INSTALLATION:
.....Below 3 photos: Installation works by Yarli Allison (2023) with Full Stack Feminism
.....Installation works by Yarli Allison (2022-2023)
..... Above (image 1): Leti Leti (Material: Watercolour, ink and pencil on cotton paper with wooden frame, aluminium net and wire)
..... Above (image 2, 3, 4) She Drifted Into The Outside of Us (Dungeon Diorama 01, 02, 03)
..... (Material: Oil, acrylic, spray and ink on paper, wood, aluminium, ceramics, glass, glue, yarn)
..... Above (image 5, 6, 7) Chained to my flower as she's chained to me (Material: Hardness: Steel, polished leather, aluminium. Oil and spray paint. biodegradable polymer, found nest, crochet yarn, paper, steel and Aluminium tube, cement, steel chains, wire)
..... Fantasy. I mean. What stays here and what leaves the room? (Material: Letizia Miro’s quote, yarn with wooden frame and aluminium net)
..... Plants (Potted) (Material: Aluminium, biodegradable polymer, spray, oil and acrylic paint, wire, cement, paper, trays)
..... Plants (Hanging) (Material: Aluminium, biodegradable polymer, spray, oil and acrylic paint, wire, cement, paper)
..... I Soft Soft Arch For You (Material: Yarn pom poms, wood and aluminium)
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....... This Is Not for Clients is a collaboration between Letizia Miro and Yarli Allison. In the dual channel moving-image piece, Yarli visualizes Letizia’s experiences, drawing from her decade-long work as a sex worker, and her career as an erotic writer, and poet who explore issues on existential affects within capitalism.
....... Letizia’s creative writing in This Is Not for Clients emerges from her deep involvement in the sex workers’ rights movement. The writing takes the form of self-fiction, portraying the subconscious thoughts of a sex worker within the context of a booking as well as how a sex workers' subjectivity changes across time.
....... Yarli translates their collaborative dialogues into a layered visual language, incorporating a mixture of ingredients from their conversations, which include gamification elements such as character-building menus that fulfill client fantasies, alongside split-screen compositions that symbolize the duality of Letizia’s role. The work juxtaposes virtual dungeons versus real bedroom during the pandemic (where does fantasy ends?), integrates archival photographs from Letizia’s early career promotion portfolio, and weaves together physical artworks: pencil drawings of Letizia, fluffy sculptures, surrealistic dioramas, comfy carpets, metal dividers, and tarot cards. The mixed-media installation evokes the shifting boundaries between the intimate and the transactional, the personal and the performative.
....... Expanding the work’s sonic dimension, Letizia invited the Barcelona-based experimental sound art open band Littio X to compose an accompanying score. Their soundscape introduces auditory traces of Letizia’s hometown, grounding the work in a personal yet politically charged sensibility.
....... Letizia (Original interview published on DAMN Magazine, 2023): “As a sex worker and activist for sex workers rights, the most important outcome I am hoping to achieve from the artwork is to raise awareness about the importance of decriminalising sex work. More specifically, by humanising sex workers’ experiences. A lush start is “Revolting Prostitutes The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights” by Juno Mac and Molly Smith, a seminal book for the movement. There are parallels between the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the demands for the decriminalisation of sex workers rights…A few sex workers are also LGBTQ+ . I myself define as Queer. That is purely anecdotal evidence. But, I was having a chat with a colleague about why it might be that the percentage of LGBTQ+ people amongst sex workers seems to be higher in comparison with the general population. This might be related to the fact that us, sex workers, work in the first line against patriarchy, facing heteronormative oppressions in our daily lives. Therefore, heteronormative relationships might not be appealing to some of us. Second, most of us have a penchant for deconstructing our sexuality. That is my personal opinion of course, but just to say there are interesting overlaps between the LGBTQ+ community and the sex workers community. ”
