About TYSMFC

Hello, Esteemed Reader,

and welcome to the sensory, intellectual, and all-around eye-popping experience of

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING’S ARTIST STATEMENT.

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*HOT SHOWS!* Is it performance art? Who knows?! But it’s funny! …most of the time. Sometimes it’s grounded, precise and lovely, and rooted more in image than dialogue, like a dream that felt emotional but you can’t remember very well. And sometimes it can be dense material that tries to make sense of the crumbling late capitalist America that we were raised in, drawing from broad research (#MileWideInchDeep) and our personal experience. So yeah okay anyway…

**HOT SHOWS!!**

SEX APPEAL! DIRECT ADDRESS! FLASHY TRICKS! CLASSIC GLITZ!

What’s that? Speak up, will you? “Process”? Well, I believe we have something on that, let me look around in here…

TYSMFC employs a rigorous, long-term rehearsal period involving research, physical improvisation, staging, and writing. Established in 2015, their egalitarian practice draws from the background and inspiration of both members. Performable material is developed iteratively, episodically, and in layers—a particular movement might be developed over months, paired with a year-old section of writing, and staged to reference an image that was just discovered in the duo’s research. The result is a patchwork of scenes and images that have a deep relationship with their project: a fast-paced series of episodes that serve as a framework for their performances.

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Where were we. . . . . . . . . . . . idk here’s the bullet points:

• Thank You So Much For Coming is an ornate intricate stained glass iPhone case that says “WHERE AM I??” on the back

• Thank You So Much For Coming is a sentient Wikihow illustration for “How To Performance Artist”

• Thank You So Much For Coming sends gleaming invitations to our fun sparkly birthday party that happens every day and we are afraid of dying

• Thank You So Much For Coming brazenly stares down the stupid like a turned around athlete in the Bull Run of Pamplona and invites you to stare with/at us

• Thank You So Much For Reading This Artist Statement.