Score (From Recto/Verso)
- Score (From Recto/Verso)
Draw a circle on the floor using your body as the compass.
Perform twelve movements, each movement corresponding to a number and a position on the face of a clock.
Use an oscillating movement somewhere in your body to modulate the frequency of your counting and keep time.
Begin by working around the clock, before introducing counter-clockwise movements, jump cuts in time, and changes in velocity.
Other numerical data (i.e., birthdays, phone numbers, dates, identification numbers, memories and narratives involving numbers) can be included to motivate the movement. [End Page 70]
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Above Gerard & Kelly, Clock, from Recto/Verso (2012-13). Performance documentation, LACE, Los Angeles, CA, May 2012, and CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, June 2012.
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Brennan Gerard; Performance documentation, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, June 2012.
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Ryan Kelly. Gerard & Kelly, Clock, from Recto/Verso (2012–13). Performance documentation, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, June 2012.
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Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly are artists whose uniquely collaborative practice uses performance, choreography, writing, and a range of other media to pose personal, collective, and political questions. Collaborators since 2003, Gerard & Kelly completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2010, and they received their MFAs in 2013 from the Interdisciplinary Studio program in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. Their first solo exhibition, Kiss Solo, was held at Kate Werble Gallery, in New York, in 2013. They have an upcoming solo exhibition at The Kitchen in Spring 2014.
