Organized by the New Museum’s Department of Education and Public Engagement, R&D (Research and Development) Seasons connect various projects across multiple platforms around a new organizing theme each fall and spring. The Fall 2014 R&D Season theme was CHOREOGRAPHY.
This R&D Season lead an investigative examination of choreography via a range of activities, anchored by an ambitious six-month residency with artist duo Gerard & Kelly (Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly) and a multiphasic international commission with the Brooklyn-based performance project AUNTS. Here, choreography was mined for its potential to negotiate the systems of value that govern intimacy, transmission, and exchange alongside an interrogation of the systems of control specific to different mediums and the politics of space.