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8 Feb, 2013

Otto and Emmett Ramstad, A Biography

2013-02-08T14:00:24-08:00By |Categories: BodyCartography, CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Emmett and Otto were born twins in Norway in 1979, the year of the blizzard. You know, the blizzard of 1979 that wiped out all the power to the entire country and left folks cross-country skiing to neighbors’ houses for weeks. Anyhow, when Emmett and Otto were born the electricity had just turned off in the hospital. The hospital was small with wood panels and the electricity turned off at the moment of their birth. Darkness. The Ramstads’ mother, a conceptual artist living in

12 Feb, 2013

Rhizozygotic twins beat the frozen odds

2013-02-12T07:58:57-08:00By |Categories: BodyCartography, CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

  Scientific American, 14 June 2007 Emmett and Otto Ramstad present a fascinating glimpse into the diversity of biology. They are rhizozygotic twins. Rhizozygotic twins are an extremely rare form of multiple birth, enabled by the wonders of assisted reproductive technology. On September 20 1975, an egg, or blastocyst, was harvested from the Ramstad twins’ mother Josie Winship and cryogenically frozen. Four years later, in January 1979, Ms. Winship decided to have the frozen egg thawed to try for pregnancy.

13 Feb, 2013

Symptomatic (Writing the Movement)

2013-02-13T11:10:39-08:00By |Categories: BodyCartography, CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , |

He’s going to say something. He moves his lips in front of the microphone. He adjusts. He adjusts again. At the back of the space the other dancer is moving in position. He stands up, walks to the front. Then they are both standing alert. Still. Breathing. Then break. Shadows against the white paper. Copy me. I’ll do what you do. What am I doing. I know, I’ll follow you. What are you doing. No, you follow me. No. Yes.

15 Feb, 2013

Twinship, Sameness, Biology: A Hypothesis

2013-02-15T10:27:13-08:00By |Categories: BodyCartography, CounterPULSE|

Watch me. Watch me. In your imitation is the attention I crave. “He’s going to feel watched.” “He’s going to seek my approval.” “He thought about how space is anything but neutral.”   What does it mean to be identical to someone else? Oskar Stohr and Jack Yufe are identical twins who were separated shortly after their birth on the island of Trinidad in 1930.[i] The brothers grew up in very different backgrounds and finally met each other as middle-aged

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