Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley in conversation with Harry Thorne

6 Jul 2019

Overview

Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley are joined in conversation by writer, editor and critic Harry Thorne to discuss their new commission Rand/Goop at Studio Voltaire. --- "… Mary and Patrick’s films are post-mortem parodies: disjointed variations on a theme that sees repetition deployed at an ironic remove. Under a metahistorical guise, they pounce upon the various hidden tyrannies of the contemporary age and, in making them equal parts legible and ludicrous, unveil their deep-set problematics. Call it Brechtian distancing with a burlesque twang." – Harry Thorne, ‘The Burlesque Worlds of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley’, Frieze, 2018. Harry Thorne is a writer and editor based in London, UK. He is associate editor of Frieze and a contributing editor of The White Review. In 2017, he was shortlisted for the International Awards for Art Criticism. Read the full feature article on Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley by Harry Thorne in Frieze here: https://tinyurl.com/yyr4s8gl --- Tickets are free, but due to limited capacity, booking is essential. Book online here: https://tinyurl.com/y5chuduu