Audience Information

BOYS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN

 *  You are welcome to walk around and move freely in the space during the performance. You are welcome to get close to the performers.

*  If you want or need to sit, you can move the chairs in the space to place them wherever you would like to sit. We recommend placing the chair with your back close to one of the walls.

*  It is not allowed to take videos or photos of the performance.

*  Do not touch the performers unless physical contact is clearly encouraged from their side and you are consenting to it.

*  Please do not talk during the performance. If you need to take a call, you can step outside and re-enter the space afterwards.

Boys Just Want To Have Fun is a durational multi-disciplinary dance-performance act presented in white exhibition/gallery spaces. The work confronts the challenge of deconstructing the “man” and taboos around men’s sensuality and tactility in mainstream Western culture. The work does so by addressing power dynamics and hierarchies of social positioning in the visual art space (the gallery), politics of object and subject (presenting man as an object), questioning what a body is and how its utterances are informed by its process of becoming, as well as the practice of individual agency in a public space (both for the public and the performers).

 In this project, objectification is utilised to examine the ‘man’ as an artwork, a creation, or fiction. We ask, how are men being “man-ified” and “man-ifactured” in our society?

The performance is suitable for audiences aged 16 and up. The performance contains elements of nudity and some violence.

Concept: Israel Aloni
Choreography: Israel Aloni & performers
Performers: Victor Persson, Elias Khanamidi, Tomer Giat, Atte Rimpelä, Fabio Liberti, Enzo Hacquin
Photographers: Nata Korenovskaia & Navid Afzalnia
Video work: Derek Pedros, Uros Stepic & Israel Aloni
Costumes: Amanda Wisselgren
Production assistant: Arūnas Mozūraitis
Project manager: Johanna Byström
Production: ilDance