Out O' Actions

Out O' Actions

Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of...

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Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath

Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath

In Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath an actor portrays Superman and does exactly what the title...

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Day Is Done

Day Is Done

Day Is Done is a carnivalesque opus, a genre-smashing epic in which vampires, dancing Goths, hillbillies, mimes and demons come together in a kind...

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Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

A collaborative work based on Joanna Spyri's novel, Heidi.. The entire work consisted of a fabricated set, a group of partial and full life-size...

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Blind Country

Blind Country

This collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country of...

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A Voyage of Growth and Discovery

A Voyage of Growth and Discovery

Mike Kelley and Michael Smith's feature-length video A Voyage of Growth and Discovery follows the existential journey of Baby IKKI over several...

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Kappa

Kappa

Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss...

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The Banana Man

The Banana Man

"This is my only truly solo video project. The tape is an exploration of character and was done in direct reaction to my performance work at the...

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Heidi’s Four Basket Dances

Heidi’s Four Basket Dances

Following the piece Heidi, a loose interpretation of Joanna Spyri’s novel by the duo of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Kelley performed four dances...

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Mobile Homestead

Mobile Homestead

Mobile Homestead is a public artwork by Mike Kelley consisting of a full-scale replica of his childhood home in the Detroit suburb of Westland...

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A Dance Incorporating Movements Derived from Experiments by Harry F. Harlow and Choreographed in the Manner of Martha Graham

A Dance Incorporating Movements Derived from Experiments by Harry F. Harlow and Choreographed in the Manner of Martha Graham

In this video, dancers move about a set designed by Mike Kelley, interacting and silently commenting on various choreographies: Martha Graham’s...

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Grow Live Monsters

Grow Live Monsters

Grow Live Monsters is a selection of 8mm, super-8, and 16 mm film phantasies from the period 1971-76. While still at high school Cary Loren started...

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Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)

Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)

Legend Trip, a teenager’s story about exploring a haunted site at night, reconstitutes a childhood memory of Mike Kelley’s. It retraces, step by...

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Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)

Continuing his series restaging photographs of “extracurricular activities” found in high school yearbooks and newspapers, Vice Anglais features an...

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Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)

"Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)" 2000, 29:44 min, b&w, sound Kelley has constructed a half-hour drama...

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Fresh Acconci

Fresh Acconci

Artists McCarthy and Kelley re-stage classic 1970s performance pieces by Vito Acconci, with a decidedly ironic Southern California sensibility...

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