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Manual Arts is excited to present an exhibition of 16 photographs from Mike Kelley’s Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction series (2000–11).
Mike Kelley’s (1954–2012) hallucinatory works repeatedly examined the rituals, traumas, and tensions of everyday life. With his seminal 1995 sculpture Educational Complex, he created an architectural model of every educational institution he attended from memory, leaving the gaps in his recollections blank in the model. To continue mining this haunted, collective past, Kelley aspired to create 365 Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions (EAPRs )–– a sprawling group of 365 videos or video installations — one per each day of the year. He completed 36.
Kelley, an avid collector of found material, selected images from his stockpile of found yearbook photos of carnivalesque extracurricular activities to use as a starting point for each EAPR. With no additional...More
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Manual Arts is excited to present an exhibition of 16 photographs from Mike Kelley’s Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction series (2000–11).
Mike Kelley’s (1954–2012) hallucinatory works repeatedly examined the rituals, traumas, and tensions of everyday life. With his seminal 1995 sculpture Educational Complex, he created an architectural model of every educational institution he attended from memory, leaving the gaps in his recollections blank in the model. To continue mining this haunted, collective past, Kelley aspired to create 365 Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions (EAPRs )–– a sprawling group of 365 videos or video installations — one per each day of the year. He completed 36.
Kelley, an avid collector of found material, selected images from his stockpile of found yearbook photos of carnivalesque extracurricular activities to use as a starting point for each EAPR. With no additional...More
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