Day Is Done

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MY HOUSE curator, Tobin Gibson, introduces this special event — only the third time Mike Kelley's "fractured feature-length musical" has been screened in a cinema. Extending the artist's subversive, multifaceted examination of trauma, abuse and repressed memories, refracted through the prism of personal and mass-cultural experience, Day Is Done is composed of live-action recreations of high-school yearbook photographs of extracurricular activities, or, as the late artist himself termed them, "socially accepted rituals of deviance." These carnivalesque disruptions of the normal school schedule, in the form of pageants, recitals, variety shows, hazings, slave auctions and dress-up days, mirror events in the broader cultural arena.

Day Is Done, 2005. Dir: Mike Kelley. 169 min. Video.

Mike Kelley (1954, Wayne, Michigan – 2012, South Pasadena, California) is considered a key figure in contemporary art. He worked in an array of genres and styles, including performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, photography, sound works, text and sculpture. His work has been extensively exhibited, before and since his death.

Tobin Gibson lives in London, UK, and has previously worked with Presentation House Gallery, The Apartment, and, more recently, with Maureen Paley in London. He is currently working towards two thematic exhibitions for 2017: the first linking somatic, temporal and material gestures within abstraction and minimalism; the second focused around humanity's sixth mass extinction. 

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition My House: Mike Kelley & Ryan Trecartin at Presentation House Gallery, December 19, 2015 – March 6, 2016.

With special thanks to the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.

Venue: 

DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada

Dates: 

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 19:00 to Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 18:55

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Dates: 

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 19:00 to Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 18:55

Venue: 

  • 1131 Howe Street
    V6Z 2L7   Vancouver, British Columbia
    Canada
    Phone: +1 604-688-8202
    49° 16' 43.2192" N, 123° 7' 35.724" W