manifesto

My blood brother/sister,
Bonded by bloodpissshitcumspitpussweatandassjuice, we share a body/canvas/culture for projections of disjunctured identities. With you, I expose and archive the physicalities of the sorid, you are my twin conjoined through the technological extentions of the body, a desire for the same...
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jez

Jez is a multifaceted genderqueer performance artist and newly acclimated web designer from Hawai`i Nei and the United States. In 2003, Jez graduated from Mills College with a BA in Dance and performed with a number of Bay Area companies. A trained dancer with non-dance influences, Jez's interests include performance art and butoh, visual art, and unconscious movement patterns, with particular focus on the role and participation or non-participation of the spectator. Jez's thesis, Butches for Balanchine, focused on masculine female and lesbian representation in American Modern Dance. Jez has received the Paul Wood Performance Art Award, an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Project Grant, and the Robert and Betty Woo Scholarship. Jez is the current Director of Asian American Dance Performances, an SF non-profit devoted to assisting all varieties of Asian American dance artists. Most recently, Jez participated with the 24 Hour Show, and will be performing with Paige Sorvillo at the Asian Art Museum on January 18th, 2007.

shawn

Shawn is a multimedia artist born in the United States and is the other half of performance art duo twincest. Hir 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, co-organizer of Ladyfest Bay Area 2004 Film/Video, board member of Femina Potens Gallery, program coordinator of the monthly Sampler 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 and volunteer a Transgiving and feature film maker, collaborative visual artist with RAWDance’s Scripting Intimacies and Per-verses, visual artist in the Asian American Dance Performace’s Translations and Tradewinds show, has a B.A. in studio art from Scripps College and has studied abroad at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland.

Twincest’s Jez and Shawn appear throughout town as a dynamic sexual duo at local events and benefits, as well as having made cameos at “Redemptions” at the Center for Sex and Culture, at “Park Phuck” — a Post-DykeMarch public sex event, and the two are featured stars in selected scenes from The Crash Pad and SuperFreak!, produced by Pink and White Productions “Porn for Pussies”.