«Ideological Formation» by Ryan Kelly and Brennan Gerard of Moving Theater is video installation and performance based on a recent site-based work, Armory Show, created early in 2010 at Park Avenue Armory in New York. This work, built for a 19th century fortress that served as the training ground and social club for an elite militia, was later reconsidered as an installation for a group show at Art in General in New York as part of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.

As they developed this installation they thought about how a site-based work travels across media and geographies, and how its discursive investments evolve in a new situation and context. They are interested in how this work can again translate into the specific site of Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa at the Palácio Pombal. Presented as a one night performance and permanent video installation, the work focuses on the male body as a site of militarization and the various ways in which this ideology constructs male subjectivities. Choreography becomes a language in which gender folds, and the potential of queer subjectivity as a resistance to the regimented demands of masculinity is discovered.

This project is sponsored by the Embassy of the United States of America in Lisbon, Portugal and supported by Moving Theater.