GĒR /gear/ creates experimental performance rooted in dance, improvisation, installation, and queerness. Our work begins with the body as a site of memory and resilience, where lived experience becomes both archive and catalyst.
Our work is especially concerned with the environmental and social conditions of life in our home base, Los Angeles, California. We investigate car dependency, urban isolation, environmental degradation, and commercialism, asking how these forces shape our bodies, behaviors, and relationships. We incorporate objects and spaces that activate collective memory, using absurdity and satire to inject humanity into the mundane
Our projects are collaborative. We work with and among a network of dance, movement, theater, sound, and installation artists who comprise the fluid collective that is GĒR Collective. We create with the belief that art already exists within the people, spaces, cities, and moments around us, and that our joy and our job as directors is to uncover and memorialize..
GĒR Collective (pronounced “gear”), founded by Scout Nankin and Eliza Loran, is a queer movement based collective. GĒR premiered their first work, Problem Dog, in the Spring of 2024 as a part of the second annual Show N’ Tell festival at the Garage Theater in Long Beach, CA.
In the Fall of 2024, their first evening length production, Gasket, made its debut at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica.
GĒR Collective believes in deconstructing the conventions of performance and cultivating community in the process. Through surrealist performance and installation, their work kisses discomfort with satire and addresses all that is bizarre, unseen, imperfect, and paradoxical.