Mike Kelley: Bad Boy | Art21 "Exclusive"
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Episode #117: Mike Kelley sets the record straight about being called a "bad boy" throughout his career, describing the shifting tastes of critics and artists towards abject art in recent years.
Mike Kelley's work ranges from highly symbolic and ritualistic performance pieces, to arrangements of stuffed-animal sculptures, to wall-sized drawings, to multi-room installations that restage institutional environments (schools, offices, zoos), to extended collaborations with artists such as Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and the band Sonic Youth. His work questions the legitimacy of 'normative' values and systems of authority, and attacks the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward family, religion, sexuality, art history, and education. He also comments on and undermines the legitimacy of the concept of victim or trauma culture, which posits that almost all behavior results from some form of repressed abuse. Kelley's aesthetic mines the rich and often overlooked history of vernacular art in America, and his practice borrows heavily from the confrontational, politically conscious "by all means necessary" attitude of punk music.
Learn more about Mike Kelley: http://www.art21.org/artists/mike-kelley
VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Norbert Arnsteiner & Nancy Schreiber. Sound: Stacy Hruby & Ullrich Vlasak. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Mike Kelley. Special Thanks: MUMOK, Vienna.
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RIP
bellmerhans69 3 weeks ago
Mike Kelley inside the Harems Room, the Uncanny Exhibition he curated at Tate Liverpool in 2004. The Harems Room was mounted in 1993 in Holland as part of the Kelley's ongoing curatorial project The Uncanny. The attendant Essay "Playing with Dead Things", Mike Kelley, 1993, is a pivotal text and commentary on recent art. Here Mike Kelley is installing the sound component relating to Harem Squeeze Toys. PBS 2004.
bellmerhans69 3 weeks ago
RIP
joyjoyjoyous1 3 weeks ago
What a great artist. RIP
savvysearch 3 weeks ago
What happend Mike? RIP
BLACKBRUSHTV 1 month ago
One of the favorites of Luminapolis Mediatheque / Luminale - Biennial of Lighting Culture
Luminapolis 1 year ago