MIKE KELLEY: VIDEO TRIBUTE

 
541 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
Saturday, April 14, 2012
10 am – 10 pm

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and Dia Art Foundation paid tribute to Mike Kelley with a daylong screening of his remarkable video works, many of which were created with collaborators such as Paul McCarthy and Michael Smith. The twelve-hour program, presented in coordination with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, included the screening of such seminal work as The Banana Man (1983); Heidi (1992), made in collaboration with Paul McCarthy; Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath (1999); Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene) (2000); Day Is Done, Part 1 (2005-2006); as well as the recent work A Voyage of Growth And Discovery (2011), made in collaboration with Michael Smith.