1. We are presenting works that tease out our practices, not towards a definitive product of Collaboration, but towards points of tension, conflict, disparity, and unease. We see these states not as deficits, but as moments, both in our practices and our own lived, bodily experiences, as moments of generative volatility.

2.Taken from Betty Friedan’s seminal text, “The Feminine Mystique,” which helped ignite Second Wave Feminism, the words I want something more than my husband and my house referred, in the 1950s and 1960s, to the pervasive unhappiness of housewives and domestic laborers. This collection of interviews focused on the disillusionment of the American insistence of patriarchy and heteronormativity within the theatre of the home. Taking this language from an earlier period of feminist thought, we are queering notions of the domestic realm and the realm of collaboration by introducing queer family as a challenge to hetero and homonormative hierarchies based in marriage and binary partnership, through role play, fetish and material negotiations.

3. An obstructor has delivered particular instructions to de la Paz and Rodriguez to investigate duplicities of pervasive massage and material seepage between skin and second skin. These instructions become performances for the camera, images, discrete sculptural objects and residues of activity that examine limits, restraint, and subversive stamina. 

4. I want to hogtie you and watch you eat out of a bowl/TV dinner/pork roast, I want to watch you braid bacon between my toes with your mouth. Shave my legs using only your mouth. Stand still, arms extended, balancing lit candles while I wax your legs (below the knee). Zipper of clothes pins attached up and down your extended arms, we connect to your feet and you are tickled and struggling. You are to draw a game of hopscotch, enjoy your game while I attached weighted objects to your body parts (household objects weigh you down). Clipped candles all over your body, I ask you trivial pursuit questions the candles wither be lit, or blown out…I ask you trivial pursuit questions, every wrong answer I will stick a needle in you, right answers you get a treat. I cover you in eggs, that are either soft-boiled, hard-boiled, raw. I’ll ask you before I crack each one to guess how they are prepared. I will crack each egg and you’ll have to eat the ones you guessed wrong. Kneeling on coarse cornmeal while toss popcorn in your mouth. Make a life sized gummy bear, and fuck it.

text written by: Oli Rodriguez and Jovencio de la Paz