One could not find a better synthesis of the work of Gerard & Kelly, exhibited at the Carré d’Art, in Nîmes, at the beginning of 2023, who have been weaving for a few years, through performances and videos, a reflection on the little-known history of art and its links with architecture. And the whole is a tribute to Julius Eastman (1940-1990), queer Afro-American minimalist composer who died at the age of 50, forgotten by all, and author of the instrumental piece Gay Guerrilla.Ĭonceptual art, drag, clical dancers, avant-garde music, humor and seriousness, politics and futility. To all these are added the American musicians of the Wild Up and AMOC formations. Since June 29, performances of their performance have been held there, Gay Guerrilla, with a surprising cast: the opera singer Davóne Tines, the performer and finalist of “Drag Race France” Soa de Museas well as dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet, whose stars Guillaume Diop And Germain Louvet. With stars Guillaume Diop and Germain Louvet ” Who knows ? Maybe, at night, people in the street will start dancing? », have fun Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly, born in 19 respectively. These mysterious words glow all night and surprise pers-by, gallery 3 being the only one in the museum to be visible from the street. On the wall, a neon has been hung, reproducing in red letters an enigmatic sentence: “The Lessing is Miracle” (“erasure is a miracle”). In gallery 3 of Beaubourg, the one overlooking the Stravinsky fountain, the two artists have installed a floor made up of mirrors, pianos, suspended a giant disco ball. It’s because the duo’s Parisian performance is steeped in references to disco. As if artificial intelligence knew its owners. At the end of May, while the American choreographers Gerard & Kelly were detailing their installation and performance cycles at the Center Pompidou, and one of them had just uttered the word “disco”, the computer in their Aubervilliers studio launched a thunderous “yes! ».
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