To the max
Moviment, chapter 8
Thu 29 June – Sun 2 July 2023
Courtesy les artistes et la galerie Marian Goodman © Adagp Paris, 2023
Courtesy des artistes et de la galerie Marian Goodman © Adagp Paris, 2023
Gay Guerilla (2023) explores the legacy of the Afro-American queer composer Julius Eastman (1940–1990) through dance, music and architecture. By channelling the unique voice of Eastman, who died in 1990, Gerard & Kelly continue his practice, incorporating abstraction and politics in an installation brought to life by a series of performances developed specifically for the Centre Pompidou’s gallery 3.
With Samuel Akins✢, Soa de Muse, Guillaume Diop✢, Conor Hanick✳, Coleman Itzkoff✳, Awa Joannais✢, Germain Louvet✢, Enzo Saugar✢, Adam Tendler, Davóne Tines✳, Richard Valitutto, Seth Parker Woods
✢ from the Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris
✳ Founder member of AMOC*
Continuous installation
Performances – Thursday, 29 and Friday, 30 June; Saturday, 1st July 2023 – on reservation
Discussion with Gerard & Kelly and the artists – Friday, 30 June 2023
Live broadcast of the performance – Saturday 1st July 2023 at 7pm
Concept and choreography: Gerard & Kelly
Music: Julius Eastman
Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc (1981); Gay Guerrilla (1979)
Installation design: Gerard & Kelly in collaboration with Simon de Dreuille
Assistant choregrapher: Julia Eichten*
Costume design: Camille Assaf
Make up: Yumiko Oka
Hair and make up: Nadeen Mateky
Lighting design: David Debrinay
Production: Vincent Brou
Stage manager: Camille Laut
Understudies: Augustin Cimbault and Marlon Thiebaux-Amaranthe
Costume assistants: Ida Maité Hahn and Lelie de Mercey
Wardrobe: Clément Bourgis
Production assistant: Pierre Tanguy-Cottin
In partnership with Opéra national de Paris
Production: & Compagnie
Coproduction: Centre Pompidou ; Festival d’Aix-en-Provence with the support of enoa and programme Europe créative de l’Union européenne ; AMOC* (American Modern Opera Company)
Residency: CN D, Centre national de la danse (Pantin); Yamaha Artists Services (New York)
With the support of DRAC Île-de-France et Adidas Paris
With the participation of Centre LGBTQI+ Paris Île-de-France
Music reproduced with the permission of G. Schirmer, Inc.
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
Acknowledgements: Alexis Néons, Régie Pianos, Harlequin Europe, Bastien Mairet, Félix Touzalin, UY Studio and PERSTA
Anaïs Ngbanzo, A different score, 2023
Music Screening
For more than two years, Anaïs Ngbanzo lived surrounded by archives and notes of the composer and pianist Julius Eastman (1940–1990) before publishing the French edition of Gay Guerilla: Julius Eastman and His Music, co-written by Renée Levine Packer and Mary Jane Leach (Gay Guerrilla : L’histoire de Julius Eastman, Paris, Éditions 89, 2022).
In March 2022, at the invitation of Cyrus Goberville, she worked with the British composer Devonté Hynes (founder of Blood Orange) to have Eastman’s music performed, over two evenings, at the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection.
A different score, the documentary she subsequently produced, is a complex mosaic of archive images, interviews and live performances that paints a portrait of a composer still relatively unknown in France.
Preview screening – Friday, 30 June 2023
Graphic Cultures of Dissent
Graphic design Exhibition, meenting
The "Graphic cultures of dissent" project – supported by the philanthropic Outset Contemporary Art – aims to shed new light on militant graphics from the height of the decolonisation processes and emancipation movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Drawing on the documentary collections of the Kandinsky Library (periodicals, posters, zines, ephemera) the project analyses the crucial role of alternative publishing in non-European and non-aligned cultural situations.
A round table gathers together members of the network of international partners of the project (Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Culver City; Freedom Archives, Berkeley; INIVA – Stuart Hall Library, London; Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis; and Beaux-arts de Paris), as well as specialists, who will share their experience, knowledge and methods in order to develop a coherent reflection on the process of collecting alternative publications itself. In particular, the manner of collecting, preserving and sharing a research collection of documents that tracks visual militant and radical cultures at the height of the global decolonisation process will be discussed.
The ”Graphic Culture of Dissent” project is supported by the philanthropic Outset Contemporary Art Fund
Continuous exhibition
Round table – Thursday, 29 June 2023
Guided tour – Saturday, 1st and Sunday, 2 July 2023
Queer Zines
Graphic design Exhibition
Echoing the theme of the "Over the Rainbow" exhibition, a second instalment of this exhibition on the culture of protest graphics showcases the Kandinsky Library’s collections of queer zines.
Unlike fanzines, which are often linked to science fiction, the adolescent school world, music (reggae, punk, rock and techno, in particular), queer zines problematise sexual and LGBTQ+ gender identities in the wake of American queer theories of the 1990s.
This protest movement stemming from the gay, lesbian and trans communities highlights the impermanence of identities and non-conformity with standard expressions of gender and sexuality, and, in doing so, reflects the visual sophistication of these alternative publications within the ambit of feminism.
In addition to these militant publications displayed in glass cases, the room features a selection of posters produced by the New York artists’ collective fierce pussy. Since its formation in 1991, against the background of the HIV epidemic, its members have used means of mechanical reproduction, and photocopying in particular, to occupy the public space and convey openly queer representations that resonate with the queer zines in terms of their materiality.
Continuous exhibition
Thursday, 29 June 2023 | |
| Closing of the gallery 3 at the beginning of the day |
Continuous 2pm-22pm | Exhibitions Graphic Cultures of Dissent Queer Zines Installation Gay Guerrilla (2023) by Gerard & Kelly |
| 2pm-5pm | Meeting Graphic Cultures of Dissent |
| 5:30pm-8:30pm | Closing of the gallery 3 |
| 9pm-10pm | Performance Gerard & Kelly: Gay Guerrilla, 2023 |
Friday, 30 June 2023 | |
Continuous 11am-1:30pm | Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
Exhibitions Graphic Cultures of Dissent Queer Zines Installation Gay Guerrilla (2023) by Gerard & Kelly | |
| 1:30pm-3pm | Closing of the gallery 3 |
3pm-4pm | Performance Gerard & Kelly: Gay Guerrilla, 2023 |
| 4:15pm-5:30pm | Meeting Conversation with Gerard & Kelly and the artists of Gay Guerrilla |
| 6:30pm-8pm | Screening, meeting Anaïs Ngbanzo, A different score, 2023 (30 min) Followed by a discussion |
Saturday, 1st July 2023 | |
Continuous 11am-5:30pm | Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
Exhibitions Graphic Cultures of Dissent Queer Zines Installation Gay Guerrilla (2023) by Gerard & Kelly | |
2pm-3pm 4pm-5pm | Guided tour Jointly, of the "Over the Rainbow" (gallery 4) and "Graphic Cultures of Dissent" exhibitions |
| 5:30pm-7pm | Closing of the gallery 3 |
7pm-8pm | Performance Gerard & Kelly: Gay Guerrilla, 2023 |
Gerard & Kelly
Dance, Visual arts
Also in the presence of:
| Samuel Akins | Awa Joannais | Richard Valitutto |
| Soa de Muse | Germain Louvet | Seth Parker Woods |
| Guillaume Diop | Enzo Saugar | Anaïs Ngbanzo |
| Conor Hanick | Adam Tendler | Julius Eastman† |
| Coleman Itzkoff | Davóne Tines |
Moviment
1 venue 10 chapters 100 revelations
3 May – 14 July 2023
Exhibitions I Performances I Workshops I Meetings I Screenings
Gallery 3, Centre Pompidou
Free access
– except show on reservation
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