Following on from a series of pieces in emblematic places of modern architecture in the USA and in Paris, the Californian artists keep on working on taking over iconic venues designed by Le Corbusier.
New chapter for their Modern Living project : After Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and the Apartment-studio in Paris, Gerard & Kelly want to explore the sensuality nesting in the shadows of modernism with l'Unité d’Habitation de Marseille (best known under the name « Cité radieuse ») built in 1952.
With L’Unité, Gerard & Kelly question social and spatial issues : How can we feel the difference, the radical alterity to others and wich architecture can we build to receive these social relations ? This project has been thought for professional dancers, students, and other dancers met in situ.
Following on from a series of pieces in emblematic places of modern architecture in the USA and in Paris, the Californian artists keep on working on taking over iconic venues designed by Le Corbusier.
return to Paris with the. Taking over two iconic venues, they explore the sensuality nesting in the shadows of modernism.
New chapter for their Modern Living project : After Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and the Apartment-studio in Paris, Gerard & Kelly want to explore the sensuality nesting in the shadows of modernism with l'Unité d’Habitation de Marseille (best known under the name « Cité radieuse ») built in 1952.
With L’Unité, Gerard & Kelly question social and spatial issues : How can we feel the difference, the radical alterity to others and wich architecture can we build to receive these social relations ?
This project has been thought for professional dancers, students, and other dancers met in situ.
Since 2003, the Los Angeles-based artists Gerard & Kelly have been working together to create installations and performance-based works which question the formation of the couple and the critical potential of intimacy. With their influences in minimalist dance, institutional critique and queer theory, Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly develop work at the frontier between dance and contemporary art, and in which text, video and sculpture finds its place.