Gerard & Kelly “P.O.L.E. (People, Objects, Language, Exchange)”
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
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Gerard & 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, they will develop a new project that continues their investigations of the choreography of relationships and the movement of cultural transmission via the vernacular of pole dancing. Their research will utilize multiple spaces throughout the Museum, include public programs and workshops, and culminate with a solo exhibition on view in the Museum’s Lobby Gallery from February 4 to 15, 2015.
From October 8, 2014 to January 25, 2015, Gerard & Kelly will transform the Fifth Floor gallery into a space for fieldwork, movement practice, and interactive research; it will also be used as a place to display documentation of the events, encounters, and exchanges that make up their residency. Among other resources, the gallery will contain practice poles for dancing, occasionally used 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, and the transmission of performance scores, choreography, objects, and poetry. “In Bed With…” will take place November 1, 8, 15, and 29. Participants to be announced. Presentation support for “P.O.L.E. (People, Objects, Language, Exchange).”
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from September 01, 2014 to February 15, 2015
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