MODERN LIVING
Manifesting as site-specific events, drawings, and performance scores, Modern Living explores intimacy and domestic space within legacies of modernist architecture. Structured in chapters, each sited in a modernist home, the project is driven by the question, what would a home have to look and feel like today to protect and produce intimacies and relations that don’t fit within dominant narratives of family, marriage, or domesticity? Gerard & Kelly choose sites based on their historical function as shelter for queer intimacies and experimental ways of living. The first four chapters of Modern Living have unfolded at the R.M Schindler House in West Hollywood, California; Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the steel and glass house in Plano, Illinois, designed by Mies van der Rohse for Edith Farnsworth; and Villa Savoye in Poissy, France, designed by Le Corbusier.
Modern Living, 2019. Performance view: Villa Savoye, Poissy, France. Kehari Hutchinson.
Score Drawing SH.3, 2018. Silkscreen and letterpress on rag paper, 14 x 18 inches
2023 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: Ruins, Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France2020 | Group exhibition
Dance First, Think Later, Le Commun, Geneva, presented by Arta Sperto 2019 | Performance
Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, presented by Festival d’Automne à Paris2018 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: CLOCKWORK, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
2017 | Performance
Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, presented by the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Gerard & Kelly: Ruins, Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France2020 | Group exhibition
Dance First, Think Later, Le Commun, Geneva, presented by Arta Sperto 2019 | Performance
Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, presented by Festival d’Automne à Paris2018 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: CLOCKWORK, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
2017 | Performance
Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, presented by the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial
2016 | Performance
The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, presented by Art Production Fund and L.A. Dance Project
The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, presented by Art Production Fund and L.A. Dance Project
2016 | Performance
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, West Hollywood, California, presented by Art Production Fund and L.A. Dance Project
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, West Hollywood, California, presented by Art Production Fund and L.A. Dance Project
Chapter 1: Schindler House
Concept and choreography: Gerard & Kelly | With L.A. Dance Project: Stephanie Amurao, Anthony Bryant, Aaron Carr, Julia Eichten, Morgan Lugo, Nathan Makolandra, Robbie Moore, Rachelle Rafailedes, Lilja Ruriksdottir | Costumes: Stacey Berman | Production Manager: Kim Zumpfe
Presented by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and The Glass House, in association with Art Production Fund | Modern Living is made possible by 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, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts | Additional support provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, GuestHaus Residency, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Chapter 2: The Glass House
Concept and choreography: Gerard & Kelly |
With L.A. Dance Project: Stephanie Amurao, Anthony Bryant, Aaron Carr, Julia Eichten, Morgan Lugo, Nathan Makolandra, Robbie Moore, Rachelle Rafailedes, Lilja Ruriksdottir | Music: SOPHIE | Costumes: Stacey Berman | Production Manager: Kim Zumpfe | Curated by Cole Akers
Presented by the MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House and The Glass House | Coproduced by L.A. Dance Project in cooperation with Art Production Fund | Modern Living is made possible by 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, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts | Additional support provided by Uri Minkoff, NeueHouse, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund | The Glass House is a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Concept and choreography: Gerard & Kelly | With L.A. Dance Project: Stephanie Amurao, Anthony Bryant, Aaron Carr, Julia Eichten, Morgan Lugo, Nathan Makolandra, Robbie Moore, Rachelle Rafailedes, Lilja Ruriksdottir | Costumes: Stacey Berman | Production Manager: Kim Zumpfe
Presented by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and The Glass House, in association with Art Production Fund | Modern Living is made possible by 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, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts | Additional support provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, GuestHaus Residency, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Chapter 2: The Glass House
Concept and choreography: Gerard & Kelly |
With L.A. Dance Project: Stephanie Amurao, Anthony Bryant, Aaron Carr, Julia Eichten, Morgan Lugo, Nathan Makolandra, Robbie Moore, Rachelle Rafailedes, Lilja Ruriksdottir | Music: SOPHIE | Costumes: Stacey Berman | Production Manager: Kim Zumpfe | Curated by Cole Akers
Presented by the MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House and The Glass House | Coproduced by L.A. Dance Project in cooperation with Art Production Fund | Modern Living is made possible by 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, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts | Additional support provided by Uri Minkoff, NeueHouse, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund | The Glass House is a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Chapter 3: Farnsworth House
Concept and choreography: Gerard & Kelly | With Julia Eichten and Zack Winokur | Music: Sarah Rara of Lucky Dragons | Costumes: Stacey Berman | Production manager: Robert Hickerson | Curated by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
Presented by the 2017 Chicao Architecture Biennial with the support of Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts | Modern Living is made possible by 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, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts | Farnsworth House is a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Chapter 4: Villa Savoye
Concept and choreography: Gerard & Kelly | With Matthieu Barbin, Julia Eichten, Damontae Hack, Kehari Hutchinson, Emara Neymour-Jackson, Marlène Saldana, Jasmine Sugar | Musical arrangements: Joanne Vance | Vocal work: Dalila Khatir | Percussions: David Paycha | Costumes: Stacey Berman | Production managers: Paul Briottet, Audrey Pouhe Njall, Sheridan Telford | Presented by Festival d’Automne à Paris | Production: Gerard & Kelly Foundation with the support of Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings programme | Coproduction: American Center for Art and Culture, CalArts – California Institute of the Arts , Centre des monuments nationaux, CND Centre national de la danse, and Festival d’Automne à Paris | With support from Ville de Poissy, Service Culturel de l’Ambassade de France aux États-Unis, Fondation FLAX – France Los Angeles Exchange and Cité internationale des arts (Paris) | With support from l'ONDA
Concept and choreography: Gerard & Kelly | With Julia Eichten and Zack Winokur | Music: Sarah Rara of Lucky Dragons | Costumes: Stacey Berman | Production manager: Robert Hickerson | Curated by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
Presented by the 2017 Chicao Architecture Biennial with the support of Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts | Modern Living is made possible by 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, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts | Farnsworth House is a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Chapter 4: Villa Savoye
Concept and choreography: Gerard & Kelly | With Matthieu Barbin, Julia Eichten, Damontae Hack, Kehari Hutchinson, Emara Neymour-Jackson, Marlène Saldana, Jasmine Sugar | Musical arrangements: Joanne Vance | Vocal work: Dalila Khatir | Percussions: David Paycha | Costumes: Stacey Berman | Production managers: Paul Briottet, Audrey Pouhe Njall, Sheridan Telford | Presented by Festival d’Automne à Paris | Production: Gerard & Kelly Foundation with the support of Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings programme | Coproduction: American Center for Art and Culture, CalArts – California Institute of the Arts , Centre des monuments nationaux, CND Centre national de la danse, and Festival d’Automne à Paris | With support from Ville de Poissy, Service Culturel de l’Ambassade de France aux États-Unis, Fondation FLAX – France Los Angeles Exchange and Cité internationale des arts (Paris) | With support from l'ONDA