Aaron Pollard and Stephen Lawson
“Besides doomed divines, other theatrical spirits conjured up include East Village performance artist Jack Smith, the late Charles Ludlam (founder of NYC's Ridiculous Theatre), even Canada's own Tanya Mars. At its best, camp exposes the questionable nature of gender, class, and race, while also creating empathy for its subjects. This is very much the territory that Lawson and Pollard travel…”
Andy Fabo, LOLA Magazine
Hailing from Montréal, 2boys.tv consists of the transdisciplinary duo Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard (also notoriously known in some circles as alter egos Gigi L’Amour and Pipi Douleur). Together they have created and toured, nationally and internationally, a wide repertoire of epic multimedia cabaret works, performances, videos and installations which aim to dazzle and provoke with their vigour, politics and poetics. Their full-length work, ZONA PELLUCIDA, an inimitable blend of clever lip-synch, cinematic scores and original video projections, has toured across Canada, to Buenos Aires, and will be presented next season for month long runs in San Francisco and Toronto. Individually and collectively their video art works and short cabaret performances have been presented in clubs, galleries, theatres and festivals across North America as well as in Europe. 2007 was the busiest year yet for 2boys.tv, premiering an elaborate installation work for la Biennale de Montréal, touring ZONA PELLUCIDA, creating a performance intervention for the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and appearing as featured performers for the season opener Art House Cabaret at the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. The duo just premiered a new performance piece PHOBOPHILIA (first public showing at the Montreal interdisciplinary centre Studio 303), an intimate, multimedia exploration of "the eroticization of terror and role of the artist/poet in an age characterised by fear", with plans already in the works to tour the piece to Victoria B.C., Santiago, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
