About 2boys.tv
Since 2002, 2boys.tv (Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard) have pursued a collaborative performance practice that disrupts both disciplinary boundaries and geographic frontiers. Emerging from Montreal’s eclectic cabaret scene, 2boys.tv have toured and taught at museums/galleries, theatres, artist-run centres, universities, and festivals across Canada. Their ongoing dialogue around performance and politics with international comrades has brought them to audiences throughout the Americas and in Europe. They have created and presented work at the Havana Biennial, La Triennale québécoise at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Under the Radar Festival (New York), the National Review of Live Art (Glasgow), and the Hemispheric Institute Biennial Encuentros (Santiago de Chile, São Paulo, Bueno Aires, Bogota, and Mexico).
As an artistic duo who have worked together intimately over twenty years and counting, Lawson and Pollard share authorship of all their projects from conceptualization to enactment. They are fueled by a distinctly queer cultural tradition that values play, iconoclasm, transgression, and the erotic, never hesitating to trespass across media and formats. This experimental practice generates artworks shaped by their shared ideas, concerns, passions, and conflicts of the moment, and incorporates novel approaches to moving images and projection, costume and makeup, music and sound, spectatorship and participation, and the dynamic manipulation of space and time.