Persephone : un rêve = (Persephone: A Dream)

This installation artwork is comprised of a dressing room with a stairwell leading to a second floor attic area. Using projection, sound, and performance ephemera, it becomes the setting for a miniature version of an expansive performance from a larger body of work, Phobophilia. Sampling from the soundtracks of Jean Cocteau films and 20th century jazz era compositions, such as Bessie Smith's "Wasted Life Blues," the piece unfolds within a suitcase, a miniature theatre where a poetic musing on the "war on terror" takes place, a monument to the loss of creativity in an age characterized by fear.

2boys.tv is a transdisciplinary duo from Montreal composed of Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard (also notoriously known in some circles as alter egos Gigi L'Amour and Pipi Douleur). Emerging in 2001 from Montreal's wildly eclectic cabaret scene, 2boys.tv has since toured their wide repertoire of epic multimedia cabaret works and taught multidisciplinary creations internationally in museums, galleries, theatres, artist-run centres, universities, and festivals. Political expression rolled into subversive and amusing forms is key to their practice as they search for ways to infuse their compositions with passion and the shameless desire for the emancipation of the powerless and displaced within and among us.