JSDance presents:
Twincest (JSDance Residency Artists) in
Jez & Shawn appeared at Jon Sims Center April, May, July, 2006
Twincest creates [fluidseries], a collection of work exploring the physical and metaphorical qualities of bodily fluids. Twincest is the multi-medium result of two lovers' interpersonal dynamics in artistic collaboration. Twincest's work comprises performance and visual mediums including, but not limited to: film, photography, installation, graphic and web design, dance/movement, theater, spoken word/text, and experimental music/noise art. A merging of performance and multi-media arts, the duo explores sameness and desire through movement, images, objects, and sound.
Twincest conjoined in October of 2005 and has performed at a number of San Francisco's venues and festivals including The Traveling Erotic Art Show (SF). Twincest's first work, Limerance, was recognized in the San Francisco Bay Guardian's as one of 2005's 'Top Ten' dance performances. Their work has been called "daring, hot, rough, and unexpected". For more information and to join the twins' mailing list, visit www.twincest.net.
The series delves into the performers’ relationship through shared fluids beginning with a look at saliva.
• Saliva within the body coats the oral cavity and esophagus so that swallowed items do not damage the mucosa or other tissues. Saliva solubilizes dry food to allow taste to occur. It maintains oral hygiene and aids in digestion.
• Saliva outside the body is carried on the tongue, dripped from the lips, or is projected via spit. Spit, an abject of the body, is culturally associated with disdain.
• Salivation happens from the presence, thought, or smell of food, or in the irritation of substances in the mouth or throat.
• Saliva applies with hunger, desire. Consumption of the loved one. Lick it up.
Through a process of collaboration, [fluidseries] incorporates these four fluids as central themes of the evening-length performance. The work will not be conveyed in linear fashion, but as subjects occurring, resounding, and referencing. Thus recreating a pattern of discovery analogous to memories and behaviors that occur with relationships.
Manifesto
My blood brosisther,
Bonded by bloodpissshitcumspittearspussweatandassjuice, we share a body/canvas/culture for projections of disjunctured identities. With you, I expose and archive the physicalities of the sordid, you are my twin conjoined through the technological extensions of the body, a desire for the same...
bleedng
wrpt in soild shts
fckd dry
Anx us
and dstrctd
About Twincest
Twincest’s work comprises performance and visual mediums including, but not limited to: film, photography, installation, graphic and web design, dance/movement, theater, spoken word/text, and experimental music/noise art. Twincest is the multi-medium result of two lovers’ interpersonal dynamics in artistic collaboration. A merging of performance and multi-media arts, the duo explores sameness and desire through movement, images, objects, and sound. Twincest conjoined in October of 2005 and has performed at a number of San Francisco’s venues and festivals including CounterPULSE’s “Passing: Less than Satisfactory”, Femina Potens’ “Sampler”, El Rio for Gender Pirates, and at the Center for Sex and Culture for “The Traveling Erotic Art Show (SF)”. Twincest’s first work Limerance was named as one of the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s ‘Top Ten’ for Dance in 2005. For more information and to join the twins’ mailing list, visit www.twincest.net.
Jez is a multifaceted performance artist and arts administrator from Hawai`i Nei and the United States. In 2003, Jez graduated from Mills College with a B.A. in Choreography and studied with Mary Cochran, June Watanabe, and Molissa Fenley, performing works by Fenley, Mark Morris, Kim Epifano, Dandelion Dancetheater, group A, Ledoh/Salt Farm Butoh, Dance Naganuma, and Zari Le`on Dance Theater. Non-dance influences include performance art, post-post modernism, new butoh, sports, and unconscious movement patterns, with particular focus on the role and participation or non-participation of the spectator. Jez has received the Paul Wood Performance Art Award, an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Project Grant, and the Robert & Betty Woo Scholarship. Jez's work has been performed at Lisser Theater, Mills Concert Hall, Jon Sims Center for the Arts, 8th Street Studios, 8x8x8, 24hourshow, and undisclosed on BART.
Shawn is a multimedia artist born in the United States. Her mediums of choice consist of photography/film/video/web design with a conceptually preoccupied with the presences of the erotic body in the public sphere. Shawn is an Irvine Diversity Grant 2002 recipient, board member of Femina Potens Gallery, program coordinator of the monthly Sampler 2005 film series, panel member for the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics (CAPE) at California State University, Chico discussion on Should Society Allow Pornography?, a Madcat Women's Film Festival featured artist, Transgiving featured film maker, collaborative visual artist with RAWDance 2006-2005, visual artist in Asian American Dance Performance’s Translations and Tradewinds 2005 show, curator and participant of the 24 Hour Show, and co-owner of Pink&White Productions. With a B.A. in studio art from Scripps College and studies abroad at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Shawn’s formal art training is in fine art photography and digital media.
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