CLOCKWORK
CLOCKWORK transforms Pioneer Works from a space in which machines were built into a machine for keeping time. The exhibition revolves around the artists’ ongoing project Modern Living, started in 2016 as a series of performances sited within iconic homes of the 20th century. The first three chapters of the project—at the Schindler House in West Hollywood, California (1922), Phillip Johhnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut (1949), and the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois (1951)—manifested in the exhibition as video, installation, sculpture, and a performance in the gallery. Situated within a spiraling pavilion is a 35-minute film capturing the artists’ interventions at the Schindler House and The Glass House. Elsewhere, several works uncover tensions related to these homes and their architecture—Johnson’s embrace of fascist politics in the 1930s, the acrimonious split of architect Mies van der Rohe and client Edith Farnsworth, and the perilous flooding of the Farnsworth House by the nearby Fox River.
Relay, 2018. Transparent vinyl, dimensions variable. Installation view: Pioneer Works, Brooklyn.
Light Studies 4:33 (detail), 2018. Silkscreen on rag paper. Installation view: Pioneer Works, Brooklyn.
Light Studies 4:33, 2018. Silkscreen on rag paper, 84 x 108 Inches. Installation view: Pioneer Works, Brooklyn.
Installation view of Gerard & Kelly: CLOCKWORK, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, 2018.
Untitled (Edith), 2018. Blue nightgowns and hanging device, 24 x 18 feet. Installation view: Pioneer Works, Brooklyn.
2018 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: CLOCKWORK, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
Gerard & Kelly: CLOCKWORK, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
Credits
Curator: David Everitt Howe | Founding Artistic Director: Gabriel Florenz | Exhibition Design: Gerard & Kelly in collaboration with Pedro Camara | Producer: Alejandro Calcaño Bertorelli | Curatorial Assistant: Vivian Chui | Communications Director: Becky Elmquist | Marketing and Development Associate: Cristina Daniels | Chief Installers: Jason Grunwald and Julian Townley | Video projection: Brad Peterson: Sound and AV, James Clark | Sound engineer: Federico Escalante | Costumes and seamstress: Karen Boyer | Exhibition photography, Dan Bradica and Walter Wlodarczyk
Gerard & Kelly: CLOCKWORK was made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Curator: David Everitt Howe | Founding Artistic Director: Gabriel Florenz | Exhibition Design: Gerard & Kelly in collaboration with Pedro Camara | Producer: Alejandro Calcaño Bertorelli | Curatorial Assistant: Vivian Chui | Communications Director: Becky Elmquist | Marketing and Development Associate: Cristina Daniels | Chief Installers: Jason Grunwald and Julian Townley | Video projection: Brad Peterson: Sound and AV, James Clark | Sound engineer: Federico Escalante | Costumes and seamstress: Karen Boyer | Exhibition photography, Dan Bradica and Walter Wlodarczyk
Gerard & Kelly: CLOCKWORK was made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.