Luigi Guerrieri (AT/IT)
POOR GUY

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.”