Gerard & Kelly
dal 31/8/2014 al 14/2/2015
Segnalato da
31/8/2014
Gerard & Kelly
New Museum, New York
Their new project -comprising public programs, workshops, and exhibitions of research and performance- continues their longstanding investigation into intimacy, relationships, and cultural transmission via vernaculars of pole dancing.
Presented as part of the “New Museum R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY”
Gerard & Kelly (Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly) work within an interdisciplinary framework to create project-based installations and performances that use choreography, writing, and a range of other mediums to address questions of sexuality, collective memory, and the formation of queer consciousness. This fall, over the course of a six-month residency organized as part of the New Museum’s R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY, they are developing a new project that continues their longstanding investigation into intimacy, relationships, and the movement of cultural transmission via vernaculars of pole dancing. Their research utilizes multiple spaces throughout the Museum and includes public programs and workshops, culminating with a solo exhibition on view in the Museum’s Lobby Gallery from February 4 to 15, 2015.
Fifth Floor Gallery | October 8, 2014–January 25, 2015
Gerard & Kelly transform the Fifth Floor gallery into a space for fieldwork, movement practice, and interactive research. In this gallery, video stations show media related to dance, performance, sculpture, intimate exchange, and collective memory, which may be viewed while lounging on mattresses distributed throughout the space. The gallery also contains practice poles for dancing and occasionally for practical skilling by the artists, their collaborators, and the public. As an extension of their research, Gerard & Kelly have also organized “In Bed With…,” a series of two-on-one encounters exploring questions of precarity and work, the transmission of performance scores, choreography, objects, and poetry. These conversations will take place on the mattresses in the Fifth Floor gallery on October 29, November 1, December 13, and January 10, and their documentation will become part of the overall presentation of the artists’ research.
Gerard & Kelly: Workshops as Work
Curious as to how a work of performance has multiple lives—both as something to be watched and experienced as a reader and as something to be done and experienced as a participant—Gerard & Kelly will reformat existing projects into public workshops taking place in the New Museum Theater. These workshops will test intimate scores with larger groups and explore transmission of work entering its second and third “generation.”
December 14, 2014: Workshop as Work: Reusable Parts/Endless Love
January 10, 2015: Workshop as Work: Verb Dance
CLASSCLASSCLASS at the New Museum: January 28–February 13, 2015
Augmenting their residency, Gerard & Kelly have invited New York City–based CLASSCLASSCLASS (CCC) to operate its program of process-based, affordable dance classes in the New Museum Theater. CCC has made a significant intervention into education in the fields of performance and dance and has structured a production model that relates to broader explorations of alternative ecologies for working and living. Classes are open to adult dancers and non-dancers from the general public.
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Gabriel Einsohn, Communications Director tel 212.219.1222 x209 press@newmuseum.org
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