At last weekend's BOFFO Performance Festival in Fire Island, select artists like Dorian Wood and Dazié Grego-Sykes interpreted the theme of 'Fugitive Intimacies.'
TAVIA NYONG’O: I was invited by the festival director after just showing up at the festival for many years and also working with two of the artists from last summer.NYONG’O: That’s a great question. Honestly, I think a lot of it had to do with the way I work with artists. I’ve also been curating other places in the city for a while. I’m primarily an academic, but ever since the pandemic I’ve been doing more curating. Currently I curate the Park Avenue Armory mostly.
NYONG’O: Why the festival? To me, I don’t want to say it’s so self-evident. But if the pandemic taught me one thing is, how needful it is to be around people, not just surviving, but just finding joy, finding leisure, being creative, sharing their creativity, partying. I mean, a big part of this particular festival is that it’s like a party. It’s all love. And as a man of color, I decided a while ago that we belong. It’s an offering to the Pines community to just come out and have a good time.
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