Gerard & Kelly
Modern Living
Gerard & Kelly, Modern Living, 2019. Villa Savoye, avec le soutien de la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès dans le cadre de son programme New Settings. Matthew Barbin, Julia Eichten, Damontae Hack, Kehari Hutchinson, Emara Neymour-Jackson, Jasmine Sugar. Phot ©
Gerard & Kelly, Modern Living, 2019. Villa Savoye, avec le soutien de la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès dans le cadre de son programme New Settings. Kehari Hutchinson. Photo : Martin Argyroglo © FLC/ADAGP ©
Gerard & Kelly, Modern Living, 2019. Villa Savoye, avec le soutien de la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès dans le cadre de son programme New Settings. Julia Eichten. Photo : Martin Argyroglo © FLC/ADAGP ©
Gerard & Kelly, Modern Living, 2019. Villa Savoye, avec le soutien de la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès dans le cadre de son programme New Settings. Damontae Hack. Photo : Martin Argyroglo © FLC/ADAGP ©
Gerard & Kelly, Clockwork , 2019. Appartement-Atelier Le Corbusier, Paris, Festival d’Automne à Paris avec le soutien de la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès dans le cadre de son programme "New Settings", 2019. Ryan Kelly © Martin Argyroglo. ©
Gerard & Kelly, Clockwork , 2019. Appartement-Atelier Le Corbusier, Paris, avec le soutien de la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès dans le cadre de son programme "New Settings", 2019. Julia Eichten.© Martin Argyroglo. ©
Gerard & Kelly, Clockwork , 2019. Appartement-Atelier Le Corbusier, Paris, Festival d’Automne à Paris avec le soutien de la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès dans le cadre de son programme "New Settings", 2019. Lauren Bolze © Martin Argyroglo. ©
Modern Living :
Concept and choreography, Gerard & Kelly
With Matthieu Barbin, Julia Eichten, Damontae Hack, Kehari Hutchinson, Emara Neymour-Jackson, Marlène Saldana, Jasmine Sugar
Costumes, Stacey Berman
Musical arrangements, Joanne Vance
Vocal work, Dalila Khatir
Percussions, David Paycha
Direction of production, Paul Briottet, Audrey Pouhe Njall, Sheridan Telford
Thanks to, Dimitri Chamblas, Shannon Kirk, Sasha Okshteyn
Produced by the Gerard & Kelly Foundation
With support from Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings programme
Coproduced by the American Center for Art and Culture (Paris) ; CalArts – California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles) ; Centre des monuments nationaux (Paris) ; CND Centre national de la danse (Pantin) 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
First performed on the 28th September 2019 at Villa Savoye (Poissy) with the Festival d’Automne à Paris
Clockwork :
Concept, Gerard & Kelly
With Lauren Bolze , Julia Eichten , Ryan Kelly, Thibault Lac
Executive producer, Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from Fondation Le Corbusier (Paris)
This performance was commissioned in 2018 by Pioneer Works (Brooklyn) with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Schindler/Glass :
Filmmaking, Gerard & Kelly
The entire Modern Living project is presented with support from Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings programme.
Gerard & Kelly thank the Modern Lovers for support to Modern Living : Sarah Arison, Art Production Fund, The Cultivist, Culture Corps, Mike De
Paola, Mickey Dobbs, Alexander Gorlin, Jon Hutton, Charles Klein, Clelia Warburg Peters & Hugh Malone, Charles Renfro, Jenny Wilson & Andy Gass .
Following on from a series of pieces in emblematic places of modern architecture in the USA, the Californian artists return to Paris with the Modern Living project. Taking over two iconic venues designed by Le Corbusier, they explore the sensuality nesting in the shadows of modernism.
Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and the Apartment-studio are two living spaces which are just as much to do with the invention of an architectural language as they are with new ways of living. After probing deep into couple-based metamorphoses in Reusable Parts/Endless Love and Timelining, presented at the Festival d’Automne à Paris in 2017, our intimate lives, daily rituals, and the domestic space are at the heart of Modern Living, Clockwork and Shindler/Glass – two performances and one film, respectively. In the hands of Gerard & Kelly, the Apartment-studio situated in the Molitor block of flats becomes a machine for marking time, via the interplay between moving bodies and light. At the Villa Savoye, meanwhile, the inspiration behind the choreography is the brief affair between Le Corbusier and the American dancer Josephine Baker. It infuses modernist perfection with playful sensuality and subversive might. The concrete and glass box becomes a boat floating on the horizon in which all expected norms and frontiers are, for the duration of the journey, interrupted or suspended. Lastly, the film Schindler/Glass brings together in the same work the performances carried out at Philip Johnson’s Glass House and the house of R.M. Schindler in the USA. Its choreography follows the contours of the painstakingly desynchronised rhythms of the inhabitants of a house.
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Estimated running time for Modern Living : 1h
Running time for Clockwork : 40 min.
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Return transport via shuttle bus will be available before and after performances of Modern Living at Villa Savoye.
Shuttle bus timetable Here.
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The Le Corbusier Apartment-studio and the Villa Savoye are not accessible for people with reduced mobility. Please accept our apologies.
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