Twins Corporated

,

Twins Corporated is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2022 to March, 2022

Sweden

Meet the Artist

Coming soon

Statement

Twins Corporated is an artist duo formed in 2016 by twin sisters Clara & Julia von Schantz. Their collaboration is based on the intertwined experiences that emerge from sharing an identical twinship. These observations are juxtaposed with how twinship is represented in society in general, and in pop-culture and medical epidemiology in particular. One such example is how twins are systematically mistaken for someone else, which contradicts the capitalistic Western imperative for constant individualization.

Twins Corporated

GlogauAIR Project

At GlogauAIR we aim to examine the history of Swedish and German twin studies through the idea of the archive as an artistic method – and its standpoint as scientifically undisputed. Because of the identical twins’ shared DNA, they’re considered to be valuable study objects for medical epidemiology around the world. Institutes dedicate themselves to keeping archives with extensive records of images, video-material and research on twin’s differences and similarities.

We wish to further develop themes similar to our practice: the notion of identical twinship based on our own and other’s experiences of growing up as identical twins in a western individualist society. What constitutes an individual? How does an identical twinship resonate with the idea of being an individual?

CV Summary

  • Twins Corporated
  • Artist twin duo since 2016
  • Julia & Clara von Schantz b. 1990, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Selected exhibitions
    • 2021 the response to constant energy intake {vol. 2}, SEEKERS SUNDAY: Experimental Performance Videowork Screening, Sub Rosa Space, Athens [GR]
    • 2021 THE DIVIDUAL’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION, PASSBYs Screening Series, SOA artist-run space, Krefeld [DE]
    • 2020 THESE TRYING TIMES, RAID, Stockholm [SE]
    • 2019 RUNDGANG, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna [AU]
    • 2017 PAR ID: 416869, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm [SE]
    • 2017 PAR ID: 416869, Film Festival Short and Animation, Stockholm [SE]
    • 2017 PAR ID: 416869, Suicide Club & Ovan Jord, A COSMIC PAGANISTIC INTERGALACTIC GOLDEN SENSORICAL SPHERICAL SPACE PLACE ______________________, Kulturgården, Solna [SE]
  • Public projects
  • Other
    • 2019 co-founders of RAID, non-profit art organization, Stockholm [SE]

Gallery

You can also use the left and right keys.

Explore other artistic profiles