Mike Kelley / The uncanny
KELLEY Mike (Wayne, Michigan 1954 - South Pasadena, California 2012), Arnhem - Los Angeles, Sonsbeek 93 - Fred Hoffman, [printing: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Gent], 1993, 24x17 cm., softcover, pp. [152], illustrated artist's book / catalog, with tens of black and white images through the pages. A text in English (Play with dead things) by Mike Kelley, graphic design by Wigger Bierma and Mike Kelley. Published in conjunction with the exhibition curated by Mike Kelley (Arhem, Gemeentemuseum, from June 5 to September 26, 1993).
KELLEY Mike (Wayne, Michigan 1954 - South Pasadena, California 2012), Arnhem - Los Angeles, Sonsbeek 93 - Fred Hoffman, [printing: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Gent], 1993, 24x17 cm., softcover, pp. [152], illustrated artist's book / catalog, with tens of black and white images through the pages. A text in English (Play with dead things) by Mike Kelley, graphic design by Wigger Bierma and Mike Kelley. Published in conjunction with the exhibition curated by Mike Kelley (Arhem, Gemeentemuseum, from June 5 to September 26, 1993).
KELLEY Mike (Wayne, Michigan 1954 - South Pasadena, California 2012), Arnhem - Los Angeles, Sonsbeek 93 - Fred Hoffman, [printing: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Gent], 1993, 24x17 cm., softcover, pp. [152], illustrated artist's book / catalog, with tens of black and white images through the pages. A text in English (Play with dead things) by Mike Kelley, graphic design by Wigger Bierma and Mike Kelley. Published in conjunction with the exhibition curated by Mike Kelley (Arhem, Gemeentemuseum, from June 5 to September 26, 1993).
"The uncanny is a somewhat muted sense of horror, horror tinged with con-fusion. It produces 'goose bumps' and is 'spine tingling'. It also seems related to deja vu, the feeling of having experienced something before with the particulars of that previous experience being unrecallable, except that it was a 'creepy' or 'weird' situation. If it was such a loaded situation, so important, why can it not be remembered? These feelings seem related to so-called out-of-body experiences, where you become so bodily aware that you have the sense of watching yourself from outside yourself. All of these feelings are provoked by an object, a dead object that has a life of its own, a life which is somehow dependant on you, is intimately connected in some secret manner to your life." extract from Kelley's text
