| This is the working title for Christian Holstad’s and Aleksandra Mir’s collaborative unit in operation since 1998. We are basically trying to figure out the best way of how to live together—without actually living together. We have been talking (almost daily) about life and art since we first met during Oriental Nights’ at Gavin Brown’s enterprise (renamed for the occasion to Gavin Brown’s experience) ‘where we both performed, made sets and had to figure out how to coexist with our various work and sanity intact. It went brilliantly, as the code of honor between us has continuously been: ‘Do whatever you want, it won’t be in my way’.
The following year, we joined forces with Delia Gonzales, Gavin Russom and Sigrún Hrolfsdottir to form the disparate performance group M.I.M.E. The five members have never actually managed to be in one place at the same time.
In 2000, we embarked on a project that deals explicitly with the (English) language, stemming from Aleksandra’s numerous wrong sayings (English not being her first language) and Chris’s love for giving physical expression to words (skilled craftsman that he is). Our first collaborative piece took two years to make. The college letterman jackets, with the words ‘The Grass Gets Greener with Care’, refer to the process of education. In November 2002, we were ready and staged a shoot with photographer Chris Verene, proudly wearing our jackets and posing as sophomores at Columbia University.
Next, we are planning a whole line of clothing with slogans, a road trip through America to collect more language and a series of home instruction videos for disco yoga, male childbirth and cooking.
Stay tuned.
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