Mike Kelley
- Directing
- October 27, 1954 · Wayne, Michigan, USA
- January 31, 2012
Biography
Mike Kelley was one of the most provocative and influential figures in contemporary art. His idiosyncratic works negotiate a charged terrain of desire, dread and sociopathology in everyday life. With deadpan humor, he invests childhood toys, kitsch, and ordinary objects with subversive meaning. His video projects, often created with collaborators such as Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, and Tony Oursler, inhabit a peculiarly American landscape infused with irony and pop cultural debris. - - - - Michael "Mike" Kelley (October 27, 1954 in Wayne, Michigan – c. January 31, 2012 in South Pasadena) was an American artist. His work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance and video. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
Filmography
- Mobile Homestead · Director
- Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais) · Director
- The Judson Church Horse Dance · Director, Writer
- A Voyage of Growth and Discovery · Director
- The Quinn-tuplets · Executive producer
- Day Is Done · Morose Ghoul (Voice), Writer
- Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip) · Director
- Heidi’s Four Basket Dances · Director
- Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene) · Director, Producer
- A Dance Incorporating Movements Derived from Experiments by Harry F. Harlow and Choreographed in the Manner of Martha Graham · Director
- Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath · Director
- Out O' Actions · Director
- Fresh Acconci · Director
- Grow Live Monsters · Manson victim - sax player, Music
- Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone · Director
- After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence · Self
- Made in Hollywood
- Sir Drone · Jinx
- Blind Country · Original Concept, Script
- Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding) · Son
- Kappa · The Kappa, Animation
- Cinderella · Accordian Player
- The Banana Man · Director
- Garage Sale II
- The Broken Rule