Boys Just Want To Have Fun Forum Box, Helsinki Performance

Photos by Navid Afzalnia

Boys Just Want To Have Fun concluded a three week residency with one open rehearsal and three performances at Forum Box in Helsinki, Finland. 

The piece, which includes a site-responsive element (adapted to each specific space in which it is presented) continued to evolve during the residency and the artists continued to explore deeper layers both in the physical and conceptual domains of the project. 

The community and audiences in Helsinki offered us a very warm welcome and we truly enjoyed sharing this work with them. As a durational piece (8 hours) it offers both the performers and the audience a range of temporalities (relations with time) and experience can be as brief as a blink of an eye or as expansive as a full work day. Furthermore, the durational aspect of the work offers a relatively rare opportunity for the performers and the audience to develop a particular relation with the space which hosts it. 

We are very grateful for the profound experiences we could have with the community and audiences in Helsinki and would like to thank our partners at Forum Box for an exceptional hospitality and warm welcome to their home. 

Boys Just Want To Have Fun was selected to the Perform Europe program which supports performing art projects that seek alternative, more sustainable and less conventional formats of touring. Slowing down the rhythm of touring, allowing the artists and the work to meet the space, the community, the city and its habitants over a longer timeframe enables meaningful connections as well as specificity in the iteration of the art work as it synthesises with the location/venue. 

We hope to be able to continue slow and deep touring practices such as the incredible adventure we had in Helsinki, so we can connect in this profound way with more places, people and times. 

Boys Just Want To Have Fun has been selected by Perform Europe for international touring in 2025.