CatoptROMANTICS

The CatoptROMANTICS invite 12 guests to gather around a table. As the 2boys.tv alter egos, Gigi L’Amour and Pipi Douleur, our hosts invoke the presence of “the other” to the table—an intimate encounter where we can collectively contemplate how we ended up together in this moment and question who might be missing or excluded from our gathering.

CatoptROMANTICS. festival Phénomena, 2018. Photo Credit: Caroline Hayeur

We premiered this performance in French and English for the Phénomena festival in 2018 and we remounted it in Spanish and English at Ex Teresa in Mexico City for the 2019 Encuentro of performance and politics.

CatoptROMANTICS. festival Phénomena, 2018. Photo Credit: Caroline Hayeur

Here is a slideshow of various photographs taken during the performance:

Below are some selected scenes that we project during the performance:

Selected Projection Content, Catoptromantics, The Traveller (no sound, 8m 9s)
Selected Projection Content, Catoptromantics, The Eye of the Storm (3m 10s)
Selected Projection Content, Catoptromantics, The Runner (3m 8s)

Here is the unedited video documentation of the performance for the Encuentro (2019) at Ex Teresa in Mexico City:

Unedited video documentation of Catoptromantics, 46m 44s

Here is an early projection test that was done as part of the creation process for the performance:

CatoptROMANTICS is mentioned in the following survey of the 2019 Encuentro in Mexico City:

For the launch of the Operación Queer Website, we put together a short, online cabaret work called Bienvenidxs, based on some of the same themes and motifs.