The Anglo-Swiss-Slovakian collective JocJonJosch comprises Joc Marchington (b. 1976 UK), Jonathan Brantschen (b. 1981 Switzerland) and Joschi Herczeg (b. 1975 Slovakia).
Using their own collaboration as a testing ground, JocJonJosch aim to enhance their understanding of human identity and existence by investigating what it means and feels like to work as a collective and its impact on the individual, through performance, sculpture, photography and video. These ideas are often explored through installations and performances. For a series of photographs entitled The Beasts, the artists entwined themselves in a series of naked embraces, each creating one monstrous ‘Beast’. Although they have constructed a greater being, JocJonJosch suggest this comes at a cost to the individual, who is swallowed in the mass of limbs. Similarly Dig Shovel Dig (2013), in which each of the artists digs their own hole whilst refilling the hole of another, alludes to the destructive and constructive impact felt by each in working together.