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Twincest is featured in Hyphen magazine (Winter 2007 : The Hybrid Issue). Twincest is listed in Top Ten for 2007! Twincest Jez Lee and Shawn are two maverick choreographers who push the creative envelop to include arts and crafts, performance art and body politics. They’re on hiatus right now, but they’re in our Top 10 because nobody captured the Zeitgeist of this year’s queer art-making quite the way they did. Femina Potens and Madison Young love Twincest, in an interview of Madison Young by Open Source Chronicle author Violet Blue: VB: Who are some of your favorite contemporary artists? Twincest is invited to contribute to thoughts on dance criticism for IN DANCE (November 2007).
Twincest evolves sexual liberationist performance (that SF
has nurtured from Isadora to the Cockettes to yours truly) to forge new
contexts for genderqueer and trans visibility that defies expectation and
cliché. A performance-art project that challenges the boundaries between performance and gender... Twincest performances are controversial, challenging the norms of emotional safety and the traditional viewer/performer model. Transmen, gay men, the brilliantly frightening duo Twincest, and Carol Queen will all contribute to the scheduled circle jerk. No, ha ha, it's not really a circle jerk. It's actually a serious discussion of masculinity, with a particular eye toward the new meanings and new realities of female-to-male transgendered adventurers. Fleshbot loves Twincest, as artists who get a little (or a lot) pornographic—and porn that gets a little (or a lot) artsy. Twincest 'explores the issue of race and sexuality in really confrontational ways' in APAture's Window on the Art of Asian Pacific Americans Festival. Twincest's Limerance hailed San Francisco Bay Guardian's "Top Ten" for Dance
in 2005! Twincest featured in San Francisco Chronicle's 96 Hours Section for Fling.
Twincest, blurring the boundaries and audience comfort levels at Stream/Fest, CounterPulse. Twincest is one of the next generation of artists "pushing the mainstream further." Twincest, a 'must see' in Translations (June 9-11) at National Queer Arts Festival. 
"Shawn is a full fledged homosexual extreme performance artist with a taste for pain." "Twincest evolves sexual liberationist performance (that SF
has nurtured from Isadora to the Cockettes to yours truly) to forge new
contexts for genderqueer and trans visibility that defies expectation and
cliché." "brilliantly frightening" "Their art is a peculiar mix of dance, naked performance, and celebration of the body and its fluids—and it kind of makes
you feel like they are going to kidnap you, mess you up real good and blow your mind.
We're happy to come along for the ride." "Twincest's Limerance is daring, hot, rough, & unexpected." "Intense, beautiful, and disturbing." "...made me jump in my skin..." "Twincest – a pair of lovers, performers, and multimedia artists who are not only are willing to put the audience’s comfort on the line, but their own as well. Their performances are raw, intense, and hot -- they wrestle half-naked, punching, kicking, spitting, and loving. In between the bouts of fighting, they stand still and stare at each other over a video background of them having sex; the silence only punctuated by their quietly hoarse breaths. In other incarnations, they shoot each other with paintball guns, thinly separated by cellophane and trembling audience members. They fight for their right to love each other -- plainly, evocatively, richly. "These artists are looking at sexual and gender taboos in a terrifyingly brave --
and brutally honest -- way." "This sexy duo is unpredictable, pretty much blowing up any preconceived ideas about Asian dance." "The last thing I remember before I passed out was the image of the two of them taking shots of each others' blood. It was amazing."
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