PRACTICE

Over the past three years our collaboration has been a long distance partnership. Large lengths of time are spent apart, during which we engage in each others’ solo practices through text messages, instagram stories, and phone calls. We come together in brief and intensive periods of time in the studio, sometimes a month, sometimes a week, sometimes just a few hours, to create new performance works. We conceive of this work as existing within cycles. Each cycle is centered around certain materials and processes that are speaking to us individually and together. We revisit these materials in order to examine them from different angles, to see what else might be illuminated. Our first cycle lasted from July 2018 to August 2019. We are currently in our second cycle, which we began in November 2019. Performances are rooted in our engagement in DIY artist communities: they often take place in bars or houses and rarely are performed in traditional concert dance spaces. These events, which we often curate ourselves, bring together visual artists, musicians, performers, and artists from a wide variety of media to create community events that spark cross-disciplinary dialogue. This curatorial practice has been central to the collective since our founding in 2015. We are interested in how a friendship can also feed creative research and how to make work within the rural and DIY artist communities where we live, perform, and tour.