Artist Talk: Viljar Irtun Moe & Israel Aloni – Boys Just Wanna Have Fun

After the performance on Saturday, artists Viljar Irtun Moe and Israel Aloni will meet to discuss how dance can function as both a critical and poetic investigation of gender and identity. Taking Boys Just Wanna Have Fun as a starting point, the conversation will address masculinity as a cultural and performative construction, and how the performing arts can expose and challenge the norms that shape bodily expressions and social relations.

The talk will explore how choreographic strategies can open spaces for queer experience and practice, and how dance can create conditions for experiencing the body as a site of both resistance and belonging. Drawing on discourses within queer theory and performativity, the discussion will consider how the performing arts not only represent but also produce new forms of subjectivity, relationality, and community.

Through the artistic practices of Moe and Aloni, the conversation will highlight how aesthetic choices may become political actions, and how art can function as a laboratory for thinking and experiencing gender-transcending identities and relations.