Phallussies, 2010

When what appeared to be a giant pre-Nabatean stone phallus was discovered under the foundations of a new museum building, somewhere in the Arabian desert, people were baffled as to what to do with it. No photographs were taken, and no records of its disappearance exist. Some say it was destroyed, others saw an unlabeled crate departing for destination unknown. The truth comes down to a handful of British men, working on the construction site, who bore witness to the discovery, but even they don¿t agree. Some say it had testicles, others say it was just a stone, some say it was three metres long, others six. Size is not the question here, it¿s the shape that counts. Cock or not? No-one can ever know the truth, but like any good erotic story, truth is a slippery thing.

Simon Fujiwara

1982, London. Lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. Through novels, theatre plays, lectures and installations, Fujiwara writes scripts and performs his own real-life biography as fiction -a drama in which he plays multiple characters including historian, playwright, novelist, anthropologist and eroticist. Often interweaving the lives of others into his own biography, Fujiwara's performances expose both intimate and overtly grand histories, taking audiences on narrative journeys spanning five continents and 3 million years of history - from expeditions to the graves of Africa's "First Man" in search of his wayward Japanese father, to homoerotic fiction that re-imagines his parents' lives under the Franco dictatorship in Spain.