Luigi Guerrieri is a Vienna-based performative artist with a background in cultural and social anthropology. His work focuses on the encounter of movement, improvisation, voice and storytelling, combined with scientific and bodily research. In his projects, he questions deeply engrained cultural constructs like the regime of wellness and masculinity, compulsively plays with the repetition of commonplace insults like “son of a bitch” or with figures of speech like “jumping for joy”. He sporadically writes on his blog, cares for his children, sometimes creates stupid short video performances on TikTok or Instagram and works as a cook.

Luigi Iesus Guerrieri Civitareale Morelli – that’s what Luigi Guerrieri calls himself during his performance as POOR GUY. Iesus is the name his mother planned to give him, but then his father died, and he inherited his name: Luigi. Morelli is the father’s surname, Civitareale is his mother’s and Guerrieri that of his mother’s ex-husband. That alone makes visible the social, cultural and fateful entanglements that precede and constitute every person. An enormous rummage table every child gets tossed onto, crawling from one end to the other over the course of their entire life, reaching for roles, names and ascriptions and assembling them into a narrative. Guerrieri's “autoethnographic” monologue is humorous and nimble, performing the double-edged qualities of becoming and promoting oneself – “a narcissistic project beating a narcissistic world at its own game.”

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