Gerard & Kelly: Saints at a Disco (Prelude)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Experience the splendor of The Met Cloisters with a newly commissioned, site-specific immersive performance.
For more than two decades, the artist duo Gerard & Kelly has developed a singular body of work that brings narrative, choreography, and critical inquiry into dialogue with site and architecture. For the first installation of a multipart project—commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and developed by Gerard & Kelly Foundation with the support of VIA Art Fund, Doris Duke Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund—the duo engages with the exhibition Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages and activates the unique architecture of The Met Cloisters through music and movement. Saints at a Disco explores the disco as a sanctuary—a place not only of mourning and loss, especially in the wake of the AIDS epidemic, but also of cultural transmission and spiritual transcendence.
Located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters brings the Middle Ages to life through the art, architecture, and gardens of medieval Europe.