“Serenity” by T.L. Cowan. Video by Kelley Bolen; Music By Mickey Vallee.
“Serenity” is part of The Twisted She Project, an intermedia collaborative performance cycle that plays with themes of perversion, popularity, and pathology all funneled through conventional and unconventional performances of femininity. Although the written components of The Twisted She Project are predominantly based on autobiographical material, the aim in presenting this material is not a form of self-therapy. Rather, by integrating elements of many forms into this text-based performance, by inviting collaborators to produce sound and visual interpretations of the writing and performance, and by working with the themes and tropes embedded in the history of feminist and queer poetry and performance art, the autobiographical nature of this work is itself twisted in order to interrupt the notion of autoBiography as a form of unified truth.
