EPisodes 1 - 3 THE ZWILLINGE PROJECT

The first three episodes were private affairs, conducted in the artists' homes and at Dartington College, and initiated a dialogue which began to incorporate the strategies of each of their backgrounds, Melanie Thompson is a performer and Kirsten Lavers a visual artist.
Things moved a long way since then, but the resonances of that early work - a late night piece in a garage with bundles in the back of a car - dead children perhaps, or the contents of a house packed by people having to flee.
Their work is involved with responding to and re-visioning sites, drawing associations from them and bringing to them the ongoing pre-occupations of the artists, in a sense each piece composes a new site geography. It is also live work which is in part about the process of composing an artist's life, bringing together materials and events with personal and artistic resonances which explore the process of unravelling and exchanging meanings over the shadow line which exists between being an artist and a private person.
Claire MacDonald (womens art magazine)

Episode 1 - THE SHED

contents of the garden shed, silk handkerchiefs, one book, one visitor at dusk

EPISODE 2 - THE Garage

one car, plastic sheeting, aluminium foil, blue light bulb, rope, stuffed baby suit, baby's bottle, suitcases/furniture/child's buggy on roof rack
performance presence in car, one visitor at dusk

Episode 3 - THE GARDEN STUDIO

garden nets, earth, plants, windowlene,
floor polisher, polyethene bags containing water, buttons and pieces of liver, two matching costumes
 performance inside and outside, small invited audience at dusk