Minor Histories: Statements, Conversations, Proposals by Mike Kelley

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What John C. Welchman calls the "blazing community of concentrated conflations" from which Mike Kelley's kinds are generated is on demonstrate in all its variety in this moment quantity of the artist's writings. the 1st quantity, Foul Perfection, contained thematic essays and writings approximately different artists; this assortment concentrates on Kelley's personal paintings, starting from texts in "voices" that grew out of scripts for functionality items to expository severe and autobiographical writings.Minor Histories organizes Kelley's writings into 5 sections. "Statements" comprises twenty items produced among 1984 and 2002 (most of which have been written to accompany exhibitions), together with "Ajax," which pulls on Homer, Colgate- Palmolive, and Longinus to provide its eponymous hero; "Some Aesthetic excessive Points," an workout in autobiography that counters the traditional artist bio integrated in catalogs and press releases; and a chain of "creative writings" that use mass cultural tropes in live performance with excessive artwork mannerisms--approximating in prose the visible kinds that represent Kelley's paintings. "Video Statements and recommendations" are introductions to video clips made by means of Kelley and different artists, together with Paul McCarthy and Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose. "Image-Texts" deals writings that accompany or are a part of artistic endeavors and installations. This part comprises "A Stopgap Measure," Kelley's zestful millennial essay in social satire, and "Meet John Doe," a university of appropriated texts. "Architecture" beneficial properties an dialogue of Kelley's academic advanced (1995) and an interview within which he displays at the position of structure in his paintings. eventually, "Ufology" considers the aesthetics and sexuality of house as manifested by means of unidentified flying object sightings and abduction eventualities.

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These loaves bake in the sun. What if Ajax’s suicide was simply motivated by an aversion to speech, rather than by shame? As a response to shame, suicide is at least respectable, but using suicide as an easy way to attain silence is definitely a sign of weakness. You don’t cut off your nose to spite your face—that’s too easy—instead, you should succumb to ugliness rather than win false mastery over it. Silence must be attained by sheer force of will, not cheap mechanics. A blowfish inflates to frighten enemies that it cannot defeat in one-on-one combat.

Preparing the great spectacle of disaster, fire, decomposition. Tristan Tzara 33. The life of insects demonstrates that everything comes down to reproduction at any cost and to purposeless destruction. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 34. My only recourse is the expedient of placing at the service of truth what has been given me by the father of lies. Léon Bloy 35. Art is a seducing, forbidden fruit. Whoever has once tasted its innermost, sweetest juice is irretrievably lost for the active, living world.

Naturally raw, and enamored of absurdity, it breaks out against all civilizing restraints like a savage who takes delight in grimacing idols. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 23. Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be constrained. William Blake 24. I think the destructive element is too much neglected in art. Piet Mondrian 25. Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow; they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and redeemer, time.

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