Mike Kelley - Paul McCarthy / Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
KELLEY Mike [Mike Kelley] (Wayne, Michigan, 1954 - South Pasadena, 2012), McCARTHY Paul (Salt Lake City, Utah 1945), Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, 1992, 21x14 cm., softcover, pp. [36], Illustrated artist's book / catalog, with a text by Timothy Martin (Childhood Flambé) and a biography of the artists in english.
KELLEY Mike [Mike Kelley] (Wayne, Michigan, 1954 - South Pasadena, 2012), McCARTHY Paul (Salt Lake City, Utah 1945), Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, 1992, 21x14 cm., softcover, pp. [36], Illustrated artist's book / catalog, with a text by Timothy Martin (Childhood Flambé) and a biography of the artists in english.
KELLEY Mike [Mike Kelley] (Wayne, Michigan, 1954 - South Pasadena, 2012), McCARTHY Paul (Salt Lake City, Utah 1945), Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, 1992, 21x14 cm., softcover, pp. [36], Illustrated artist's book / catalog, with a text by Timothy Martin (Childhood Flambé) and a biography of the artists in english.
"Heidi is the title of a collaborative performance work and video made by Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley in Vienna in 1992. In it the two artists use stuffed dolls, masks, and mirrors to act out an interpretation of Joanna Spyri’s 19th century children’s novel Heidi which includes violence, incest, and an obsession with bodily functions and secretions. McCarthy explained that their intention was to create convoluted associations between Heidi, the purity myth in America and Europe and the media view of family life, horror movies and ornamentation." from www.oliverwoodbooks.com
