Twincest’s Death

by Jiz Lee ~ January 25, 2009

Last night our performance art duo twincest met our timely death at the hands of a drunken mob.

Shawn and I performed at CounterPULSE Theater, with pinata replicas of our twin-like selves. It was a benefit for Jess Curtis/Gravity who will be performing their full length show in March. Jess introduced us. We invited the audience to come down and take a whack. (After a swig of Bicardi and 5 spins of course.) Our weapon of choice? This dildo, a blue whale penis replica appropriately titled Moby Dick that we found in the Castro:

(That’s a 4″ base, folks. Real whale’s dick is 8 feet long.)

We ordered custom papered pinatas (I do believe the original design of them were Dora the Explorer…) from a FANTASTIC shop called Rainbow Custom Made Pinatas (yelp) and fashioned them to look like ourselves in our first work Limerance. (Video promo excerpt)

Here they are waiting in my living room (scaring the shit out of my flatmates):

We then threw them in the trunk of a cab and headed to the theater.

Soon we’ll have a video of the performance. Basically the audience circled around us, taking turns beating us down with the dick. Inside the pinatas were goodie bags with pieces from past performances; a retrospective souvenir. 3-D glasses, plastic gun pellets, slide images, ping pong balls, postcards, glittered bacon, panties, and much more. (Unlike our past performances, there was no blood, no urine, and no poop.)

By the end of it all, the audience got to take home a piece of our art, and the twins had been pulverized.

Legendary performance artist and academic Keith Hennessy (also here) followed our performance with an improvisation where he removed his own without removing his shorts, and then put on a pair of our undies he had grabbed from the broken pinatas on in the same fashion. To the audiences’ amazement, he was able to do it! (Sans one of s.)

Twincest may do our last performance in November (a funeral) so keep your eye out for that by emailing info (@) twincest (.) net to be added to the mailing list, and be sure to follow us @TwincestFuckArt on twitter.