PROJECT // Pussyboi (Chapitre 2: Wild Thing)
BIOGRAPHY
Jo Vignola is a Montreal-based transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performing and visual arts. Trained in scenography, theater studies, and anthropology, their practice explores trans*/queer experience as a compass for alternative creative processes.
In 2021, they received the Claude F. Lefebvre grant from Laval’s Arts Support Foundation for their project BIOS, presented at Vous Êtes Ici that same year. They also completed the Solo Performance program at Budapest’s School of Disobedience, where they showcased Wild Thing in an artistic showcase.
As a lighting and video designer, they collaborate with emerging and mid-career artists/companies including Lara Kramer Danse, Théâtre I.N.K, Les Stations sordides, Une autre compagnie de Théâtre, Théâtre des Trompes, Baobab – Compagnie de création, and Les Fabulateurs.
| PROJECT DETAILS |
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| Wild Thing is the second chapter of transdisciplinary artist Jo Vignola’s Pussyboi creative cycle. In this ever-evolving work, Jo seeks to materialize the desires, fantasies, and solitude emerging from their experience of gay dating as a transmasculine person. Inspired by sociologist Harry Nicholas’ autoethnography A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar, Wild Thing roots itself in the fluidity of erotic spaces, the chaos of desire, the plurality of self, and timeless narratives. |
| Technical Direction: Nicolas Jalbert Dramaturgy : Anna Ádám |
