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1/11/2013

Mike Kelley

Artangel, London

Following the success of the screenings of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead at Tate Modern in May and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit through the summer, Artangel and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts are pleased to announce two weeks of screenings in independent cinemas across London this November. The screenings coincide with a major survey of Mike Kelley’s work at MoMA PS1 in New York this autumn. Mobile Homestead was the final work made by the great American artist Mike Kelley before his untimely death in 2012. The project involved Kelley building an exact replica of his childhood home, a 1950s suburban house in the Detroit suburb of Westland, with a special detachable façade that could be mounted on a chassis and driven around like a conventional mobile home.

This trilogy of remarkable documentary-style films charts the maiden voyage of the Mobile Homestead from downtown Detroit, along Michigan Avenue, to the ‘mothership’ that is the original Kelley home, and back again. Footage of the expedition is inter-cut with compelling testimonies from an array of people who live and work in Detroit, from bikers and prostitutes, to church officials and social workers, heroin addicts and heads of the automobile industry. A third film documents the opening ‘launch’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, where the completed Mobile Homestead stands today.

Mike Kelley, Mobile Homestead Film Trilogy, 2010-11
- Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland, 2010-11 (76:15 min).
- Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit, 2010-11 (76:17 min).
- Mobile Homestead Christening Ceremony and Launch, September 25, 2010, 2010-11 (55:01 min).
Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland is the first part of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead trilogy. The film documents, in ‘real-time’, the journey of the replica to the original homestead, tracing en route the remarkable shift along Michigan Avenue from the urban to the suburban. In a sequence of interviews, Kelley brings us face to face with residents from the wealthy area of Dearborn, the impoverished black neighbourhoods of Inkster and the white, working-class outskirts of Wayne and Westland. Their personal stories and memories indicate the extraordinary diversity of a city with which the artist shares an ambivalent past.

Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit is the second part of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead trilogy. The film documents the artist’s replica of his childhood residence as it journeys back along Michigan Avenue from the original Kelley home to its new location in the city centre, in a reversal of the so-called ‘white flight’ that occurred in the wake of the notorious riots of 1967. Interviews with an eclectic mix of local residents are underscored by Kelley’s characteristically dark humour and biting commentary, as the artist offers a bleak but revelatory picture of life in the Midwest.

Mobile Homestead Christening Ceremony and Launch, September 25, 2010 is the third film in Mike Kelley’s powerful trilogy about the construction of a full-scale replica of his childhood home in the Detroit suburb of Westland. Mobile Homestead was Kelley’s first public art project and the final work completed before his untimely death in 2012. This film documents the launch of the ‘mobile section’ of the homestead, in which speeches and performances by local poets and musicians are captured with Kelley’s lifelong sense of sceptical realism.

Commissioned by Artangel in association with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and the LUMA Foundation, with the generous support of the Artangel International Circle.

MIKE KELLEY was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1954 and died in Los Angeles in 2012. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Michigan. Major solo exhibitions include ‘Catholic Tastes’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1993); ‘Mike Kelley’, Museu d'art Contemporani, Barcelona (1997); ‘Framed and Framed, Test Room, Sublevel’, MAGASIN, Grenoble (1999); ‘The Uncanny’, Tate Liverpool and Museum Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (2004); ‘Profondeurs Vertes’, Musée du Louvre (2006); and ‘Educational Complex Onwards: 1995-2008’, WIELS Centre d'Art Contemporain (2008). The largest exhibition of Kelley’s work to date opened at MoMA PS1 on 13 October 2013.

ARTANGEL commissions and produces exceptional projects by outstanding contemporary artists. Over the past two decades, Artangel projects have materialised in a wide range of different sites and situations and in countless forms of media, from film and video to sculpture and sound installations. Artangel has generated some of the most talked-about and contentious art of recent times, including work by Francis Alÿs, Clio Barnard, Matthew Barney, Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Roger Hiorns, Roni Horn, Michael Landy, Mike Kelley, Steve McQueen, Susan Philipsz,, Gregor Schneider, Rachel Whiteread and Robert Wilson.

Artangel’s current commission Dig by Daniel Silver continues until 3 November 2013. Artangel is generously supported by Arts Council England and the private patronage of Artangel International Circle, Special Angels and The Company of Angels.

The ARTANGEL COLLECTION is an initiative to bring outstanding film and video works, commissioned and produced by Artangel, to galleries and museums across the UK, and to commission new works in collaboration with Ikon, Birmingham and The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. The collection comprises film and video installations by contemporary artists such as Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Atom Egoyan, Douglas Gordon, Mike Kelley, Steve McQueen, Tony Oursler, Paul Pfeiffer and Gregor Schneider.

SCREENINGS
Sat 2 November 3 pm
Full Mobile Homestead film trilogy with introduction from
Artangel Co-Director and Mobile Homestead Executive Producer James Lingwood
Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5DY
0330 500 1331 www.curzoncinemas.com/cinemas/soho

Mon 4 November 8.30pm
Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland, 2010-11 (76 min).
Whirled Cinema, 254-255 Hardess St, SE24 0HN
020 7737 6153 www.whirledart.co.uk/cinema/programme

Tues 5 November 6.45 pm
Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland, 2010-11 (76 min) with Mobile Homestead Christening Ceremony and Launch, September 25, 2010, 2010-11 (55 min) in the bar and an introduction from Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery
Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, SW2 1JG
0871 902 5739 www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Ritzy_Picturehouse/

Thurs 7 November 6.45 pm
Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown
Detroit, 2010-11 (76 min) with Mobile Homestead Christening Ceremony and Launch, September 25, 2010, 2010-11 (55 min)
in the bar
Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, SW2 1JG
0871 902 5739 www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Ritzy_Picturehouse/

Mon 11 November 8.30 om
Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit, 2010-11 (76 min)
Whirled Cinema, 245-255 Hardess St, SE24 0HN
020 7737 6153 www.whirledart.co.uk/cinema/programme

Tues 12 November 6.45 pm
Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland, 2010-11 (76 min) with Mobile Homestead
Christening Ceremony and Launch, September 25, 2010, 2010-11 (55 min) in the bar and an introduction from Laura Sillars, Director of Site Gallery, Sheffield and Producer of the Mobile Homestead Videos
Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, E8 1HE
0871 902 5734 www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/

Thurs 14 November 6.45 pm
Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown
Detroit, 2010-11 (76 min) with Mobile Homestead Christening
Ceremony and Launch, September 25, 2010, 2010-11 (55 min)
in the bar
Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, E8 1HE
0871 902 5734 www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/

Mon 18 November 8.30 pm
Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown
Detroit, 2010-11 (76 min) and Mobile Homestead Christening
Ceremony and Launch, September 25, 2010, 2010-11 (55 min)
Whirled Cinema, 254-255 Hardess St, SE24 0HN
020 7737 6153 www.whirledart.co.uk/cinema/programme

Press contact:
Anna Larkin 020 77131400 anna@artangel.org.uk
Helen Parker helen@artangel.org.uk

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