2boys.tv (Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard) are a Canadian art duo based in Montreal, Quebec, active since 2001. Lawson graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada, and Pollard from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design and Concordia University. Lawson and Pollard are also known both as Gigi L'Amour and Pipi Douleur. The team and real-life couple work in video-supplemented performance, video, and installation and have presented in arts and queer spaces across the Western Hemisphere, Europe, and New Zealand. The duo is known for its extravagant and intense stage spectacles.[1]
Performance studies scholar Peter Dickinson notes that their performance work "supplements a camp aesthetic derived from drag with sophisticated video projections, original and found sound scores, the art of lip-synch and object-oriented and site-based installation (...)".[2] 2boys.tv is interested in the plasticity of video, often using it in a sculptural way instead of as a large screen.[3]
The name 2boys.tv resulted from looking for a web domain name for the project. "(...) We came across this .tv which both references transvestism and transversalism," the duo told The New York Times in a 2011 interview. "But it's actually the domain of the small island in the South Pacific called Tuvalu. The country sold off its domain name to raise money because it's sinking due to global warming. And, of course, we're two boys."[3]