photo/foto: Paula Kupfer
Photo/Foto: Paula Kupfer
Show Business
Com esta performance de dublagem, o 2boys.tv juntam motivos e ícones culturais populares americanos com imagens geradas pela primeira e maior máquina de propaganda do mundo ocidental: o Vaticano. O Show Business “celebra” e “comemora” a ascensão do Cardeal Joseph Alois Ratzinber depois do falecimento do Papa João Paulo II, em 2005. Esta colisão de Broadway, Hollywood e Catolicismo revela as correlações engraçadas e assustadoras entre a igreja e o show business.
Biografia
2boys.tv é uma dupla transdisciplinar de Montréal composta por Stephen Lawson e Aaron Pollard (também notoriamente conhecidos em alguns círculos por seu alter-ego Gigi L’Amour e Pipi Douleur). Criadores dum amplo repertório de trabalhos de cabaré épico multimídia, performances, vídeos e instalações.
Show Business
With this lip-synch performance, 2boys.tv splice together iconic American popular cultural motifs with images generated by the western world’s first great propoganda machine: The Vatican. Show Business “celebrates” and “commemorates” the rise of Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger after the passing of Pope John Paul II in 2005. This collision of Broadway, Hollywood, and Catholicism reveals both the funny and frightening correlations between the church and show business.
Biography
2boys.tv is a transdisciplinary duo from Montreal composed by Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard (also notoriously known in some circles as alter egos Gigi L’Amour and Pipi Douleur). They have created a wide repertoire of epic multimedia cabaret works, performances, videos, and installations.
Media
Permanent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/b5mkkz79
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