As Performa 11 draws closer, more details about the individual performances have begun to emerge. Mark your calendars, because you’re not going to want to miss Simon Fujiwara’s.
Though the name of Mr. Fujiwara’s show, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, was already known, the details of what it entailed were scant. The artist, who won the Frieze Foundation’s Cartier Award in 2010, recently sat down with the U.K. edition of GQ and spilled.
“[It’s] a two-hour play that brings together a number of my performance works into one work titled The Boy Who Cried Wolf. It features a boy who plays me at the age of eleven turning gay by looking at an abstract painting; my best friend from school, Phineas, who became an actor and is now playing himself based on my scripted version of his life; a 136-year-old eroticist and explorer who I followed for two years into the Amazon rainforest; and a Spanish guitarist who serenades as I read erotic stories based on my parents lives in Franco’s Spain. The play will tour from the HAU 1 theatre in Berlin, to Performa in New York and to SFMOMA, San Francisco this autumn.”
Well, that explains all the surprising hook-ups at MoMA’s recent de Kooning opening. The Boy Who Cried Wolf debuts at Performa 11 on Nov. 9.
