A GERMAN artistic duo is looking for sets of identical twins to take part in a project in Liverpool.

Cologne-based partners Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser have been commissioned by the Bluecoat to create a series of live art performances.

They will take place at the A Foundation, on Greenland Street, and will feature twins from Cologne and Liverpool.

The idea behind the work comes from the two cities’ official twinning agreement, signed in the 1950s, and from Hiesl’s personal fascination with the phenomenon of identical twins.

"The unique relationship between identical twins remains mysterious to most people, myself included, even though I have had the opportunity to study my sisters first hand for many years," says Hiesl, who has younger identical twin sisters.

"Where are the boundaries between them and where do they flow into one another?

"Where does the personality of one end and the other begin?"

The duo, known collectively as Angie Hiesl Produktion, has won numerous theatre and art prizes since the early 1980s and has shown work internationally, yet remains relatively unknown in the UK.

Bryan Biggs, Bluecoat’s artistic director, saw the work in Germany and was keen to bring it to Liverpool.

"An Angie Hiesl Produktion is always visually arresting, poetic and seductive, yet thought- provoking at the same time," he says. "In TWINS, the relationship between pairs of identical twins is explored through dramatic tableaux, illusion and intriguing situations, and plays on our fascination with the phenomenon of identical twins.

"The work also resonates with wider, topical themes, such as genetics, human cloning and the identity of the individual in an increasingly homogenised society."