Extracurricular activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)
2000
Installation with wall sections, carpet, table, stove, base with ceramic sculpture, sink, dresser, folding bed, burner plates, coffee pot, bread box, waste basket, champagne bottle and glasses, plant stand, 2 framed black & white photographs; 1 framed color photograph; 3 framed paintings; 30-minute video.
Video: 29min. 41sec. Video (Installation): 304.8 x 875 x 731.5 cm
A black and white video opens with a still image from a high school yearbook: two young men are standing, acting in a school play. Based on this picture, Mike Kelley directed Domestic Scene, a short drama about a tumultuous love affair between two men.
Focusing on issues of identity, self-denial and the suffering that flows from it, the video is part of a larger work entitled Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction. Kelly’s aim is to make a video for each day of the year based on a photograph from a quite ordinary source, such as a school yearbook or local newspaper.
An inward-looking work about the role of the "norm" as a source of psychological trauma, Kelley's Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene) is in the Pinault Collection. It was first exhibited at the "Sequence 1" show at the Palazzo Grassi in 2007.
Focusing on issues of identity, self-denial and the suffering that flows from it, the video is part of a larger work entitled Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction. Kelly’s aim is to make a video for each day of the year based on a photograph from a quite ordinary source, such as a school yearbook or local newspaper.
An inward-looking work about the role of the "norm" as a source of psychological trauma, Kelley's Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene) is in the Pinault Collection. It was first exhibited at the "Sequence 1" show at the Palazzo Grassi in 2007.
Exhibitions
Mike KELLEY © Adagp, Paris.
Courtesy the Artist
Detail: Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene), videostills.
Mike KELLEY © Adagp, Paris.
Courtesy the Artist
Photo : Santi Caleca
Exhibition view, Sequence 1 : Painting and Sculpture from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, May 5 - November 11 2007.
