Mike Kelley: Vice Anglais

4 Feb-17 Apr 2025

Overview

Over the course of his four-decade career, Mike Kelley (1954 – 2012) addressed the relation of establishment culture to counterculture. He shed light on social rituals and subcultures, whilst simultaneously parodying the imposition of institutionalized power and instruction.

With his Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction (EAPR) series (2000 – 2011), Kelley set out to make 365 videos and video installations, one for each day of the year. The EAPR series came to an early end with ‘Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)’ (2011), one of the last videos Kelley ever made.

In collaboration with Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London centers on this final EAPR which will be shown alongside related works. These include a series of never-before exhibited paintings of the cast of transgressive characters, as well as a lightbox still from this EAPR and sculptures made using props from the video. The show will also present ‘Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36B (Made in England)’ (2011), a companion video to ‘Vice Anglais.’
This exhibition will run concurrently with the major survey ‘Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit’ at Tate Modern in London, UK, which is on view until Sunday 9 March 2025.

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