Barcelona Arts Summer School

Edi Pou is a musician, journalist, and cultural activist. Through his duos ZA! and Los Sara Fontan—two of the most internationally active Spanish experimental music groups—he has performed close to a thousand concerts across five continents. He is also a co-founder of the improvisation and training project La Orquesta del Caballo Ganador, whose method he has taught in workshop format in Barcelona, Porto, Melbourne, Berlin, Maputo, Azpeitia, Lagos, the Azores, and more.

A lover of collective creation and the intersection of music with other disciplines such as dance, poetry, theatre, performance, and film, his passion as a journalist lies in the relationship between music and society. He has explored this theme in several podcasts (MaracaLab, Vivalanumeración, Ràdio Cultura Viva), articles, and in his book Nou elogis de l’imparell (HyO Editores, 2026). He was awarded the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona for Music in 2015 and 2022. He is also the head of the Gandula record label and a member of the self-managed collective Atzavara.

Erika Lust is an award-winning filmmaker based in Barcelona and one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary erotic cinema. For more than two decades, she has developed a body of work that brings together cinematic storytelling, strong visual language, and an attentive exploration of desire, intimacy, and human connection. Her films are recognized for their emotional depth, artistic direction, and commitment to authenticity.

In 2004, she founded her independent studio and streaming platform, where she has since created hundreds of original works across short films, series, and feature-length productions. Through this practice, she has helped expand the possibilities of adult cinema, positioning it within a wider cultural conversation around film, sexuality, and representation.

Alongside her filmmaking, Erika Lust continues to explore new narrative territories through immersive and virtual experiences. Her work moves across cinema, art, and innovation, opening space for new ways of creating and experiencing stories of desire.

Erol Ileri is a filmmaker, audiovisual director, camera operator, music producer, and

performer whose work explores contemporary social and political issues through

documentary cinema, sound creation, and performing arts.

Born to a Catalan mother and a Turkish father, his artistic practice bridges film, music, theatre, and documentary research. His work includes the documentaries Make Turkey Great Again (TV3, 2025) and There's Still Someone in the Woods (TV3, NHK Japan), winner of the PriMed Award and several international film festival awards. He is also the producer of the award-winning podcast La Mala Memòria, recipient of the 2024 MIRA Award for Best Fiction Podcast.

He is currently directing the documentary and podcast project BIGWÉ: In the Land of the Red Prawns, exploring new narratives around African identity and the decolonisation of storytelling through music, humour, and artistic creation.

Alongside his audiovisual work, he performs in object and text-based theatre productions touring internationally. In parallel, he coordinates cultural and community-based cooperation projects in Kurdistan. His projects are rooted in long-term investigative processes that combine journalism, documentary research, and artistic creation.

Sol Picó is a choreographer and dancer born in Alcoi (Alicante), and the founder of the company that bears her name since 1994. Her stage language is based on the hybridization of genres, combining contemporary dance, physical theatre, flamenco, and popular culture with refined technique, physical strength, and sharp humor.

She studied various contemporary dance techniques at Movement Research in New York and has worked as both a performer and choreographer with different companies and creators. Her forays into theatre, collaborating with playwrights such as Andrés Lima, Carme Portaceli, and Sergi Belbel, as well as her work in audiovisual media—starring in short films and participating in feature films and advertising productions, among others—complete a career that has received numerous awards.

With a trajectory of more than 30 productions that have toured countries across all continents, Sol Picó has built a unique artistic universe that has established her as an essential figure in the contemporary dance scene.

Her accolades include, among others, 4 Valencian Performing Arts Awards, 10 Max Awards, the National Dance Award of Catalonia (2004), the City of Barcelona Dance Award (2015), the National Dance Award (2016), and the Creu de Sant Jordi (2020).