BRENNAN GERARD &
RYAN KELLY
RYAN KELLY
Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly collaborate to make performances. Their work straddles contemporary dance, experimental theater, and visual art performance practices to create live events, site-based projects, videos, theatrical works, and musical collaborations. Since they began working together in 2002, Brennan and Ryan have aimed—in the messy, corporal, erotic cauldron of liveness—for an excavation of performance, a form that often eludes extensive scholarship and critique. Their artistic practice investigates the formal conditions of performance, probes the subjectivity of performers and excavates the sites in which performances occur.
Gerard and Kelly have worked in galleries, museums, theaters, shopping malls, glue factories, can factories, cement factories, and artist squats, collaborating with dancers, actors, architects, filmmakers, and international ensembles. Their work has been shown in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Park Avenue Armory, Prelude 08 Festival, the Elizabeth Foundation, Chez Bushwick, Volta Art Fair 2010, Burning Bridges, Dance New Amsterdam, and Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, as well as at the Maastricht Toneelstad Festival (Netherlands), La Générale and il faut brûler pour briller (Paris), Renaissance Society (Chicago), Studio 303 (Montréal), and the Greenwich Music Festival. From 2008-2010 they were innaugural artists in residence at Park Avenue Armory. They are participants in the 2009-2010 Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program, and in the fall of 2010 will admit to the Interdisciplinary Studio in UCLA's Department of Art where they are MFA candidates.
Gerard studied at Yale University and was a Fulbright scholar in France before joining creative forces with Kelly, a former ballet dancer with New York City Ballet. In 2003 Gerard and Kelly founded a non-profit production company, Moving Theater, to support their work and the work of other artists working in contemporary performance.
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Gerard and Kelly have worked in galleries, museums, theaters, shopping malls, glue factories, can factories, cement factories, and artist squats, collaborating with dancers, actors, architects, filmmakers, and international ensembles. Their work has been shown in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Park Avenue Armory, Prelude 08 Festival, the Elizabeth Foundation, Chez Bushwick, Volta Art Fair 2010, Burning Bridges, Dance New Amsterdam, and Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, as well as at the Maastricht Toneelstad Festival (Netherlands), La Générale and il faut brûler pour briller (Paris), Renaissance Society (Chicago), Studio 303 (Montréal), and the Greenwich Music Festival. From 2008-2010 they were innaugural artists in residence at Park Avenue Armory. They are participants in the 2009-2010 Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program, and in the fall of 2010 will admit to the Interdisciplinary Studio in UCLA's Department of Art where they are MFA candidates.
Gerard studied at Yale University and was a Fulbright scholar in France before joining creative forces with Kelly, a former ballet dancer with New York City Ballet. In 2003 Gerard and Kelly founded a non-profit production company, Moving Theater, to support their work and the work of other artists working in contemporary performance.
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