Extreme Kiss

Just before Annie started chemo, Madison Young invited us to perform for an event she was curating called Private vs. Public on May 19, 2005, at Artist Television Access in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. We loved how pleasurable, transcendental, and even creative a long kiss could be and decided we would do a public kiss for three hours straight, as gallery goers milled about. We had agreed with each other that we wouldn’t go beyond kissing, which turned out to be quite challenging. We liked how minimal and meditative this performance piece turned out to be. We called it Extreme Kiss and performed it many times in different contexts and countries.