Auntie Boo’s Basement

Matthew Fontaine and Tamara Paris have been creating performance-based art together since the early 2000s, presenting their work in galleries, performance spaces and in the community.

Together and with a changing constellation of collaborators, they manifest a slippery, gooey, recursive praxis in which time-based art, narrative, theatre, entertainment, and hokum steal each other's identities. They explore themes such as pop culture as a proxy for violence, the liberatory power of boredom, and the revolutionary potential of stupid comedy.

“Matthew and Tamara are some of the most risk-taking theater artists in this community. They create thoughtful and surreal pieces about pop culture but work outside-the-box to present them in a distinctive (although sometimes nightmarish) context.”

— Lane Czaplinski, On the Boards