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Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead – Screening and Panel Discussion

Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead – Screening and Panel Discussion

The Mobile Homestead in front of the abandoned Detroit Central Station, 2010. Photo: Corine Vermuelen. All Kelley works © Estate of Mike Kelley, Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.

For more information, please call 626.396.4222 or visit 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1421096791509480/
No tickets are required. The event is free and open to the public.
This event is presented by Art Center College of Design in association with Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Los Angeles Filmforum and in conjunction with “Mike Kelley” at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.
Los Angeles Filmforum is pleased to co-present a screening and panel discussion of Mobile Homestead, a video series documenting Mike Kelley’s large-scale public art project on Saturday, July 12, 2014 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. in Art Center College’s Hillside Campus Ahmanson Auditorium, 1700 Lida Street in Pasadena. Free parking is available in the campus student lot. 
A permanent artwork situated in Downtown Detroit, Mobile Homestead is a full-scale replica of the 1950s Westland suburban home where Kelley grew up. It is designed to operate as a community gallery with a removable façade on wheels that Kelley imagined would travel and dispense ‘public services.’ The videos document the remarkable journey through Detroit’s urban and suburban landscapes reflecting Kelley’s interest in its socio-economically diverse communities, as well as themes of biography, history and memory. In interviews and his own writing, Kelley noted his ambivalence towards public art, believing it was often foisted on a public audience that didn’t want it. With typical humor and insight, Kelley’s Mobile Homestead slyly puts this belief to the test.
Bennett Simpson, curator of MOCA's current "Mike Kelley" exhibition; Patti Podesta, Graduate Art department faculty member at Art Center and Mary Clare Stevens, executive director of Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and Kelley’s studio manager from 2003 until 2012 will speak about the late artist throughout the July 12th program. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Jason Smith, prolific contemporary art scholar and associate chair of the Graduate Art department at Art Center.
 
11am: Diana Thater, welcome and opening remarks

11:15am: Bennett Simpson, Remarks

11:30am: Screening: Westbound
Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland
2010-­‐°©-­‐2011
color/sound,
1 hour 18 minutes

1pm-­‐2pm: Lunch Break

2pm: Patti Podesta, Remarks

2:15pm: Screening: Eastbound
Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit
2010-­‐°©-­‐2011
color/sound, 1 hour 18 minutes

3:30pm: Mary Clare Stevens, Remarks

3:45pm: Jason Smith and speakers, Panel discussion and Q&A
About the videos:
Kelley’s Mobile Homestead videos, Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland, 2010 (2011, color/sound, 78 min.) and Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit, 2010 (2011, color/sound, 78 min.), document  the Mobile Homestead’s route from its permanent location at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) to Kelley’s former family home in Westland and back again. The voyage takes viewers along Michigan Avenue, the main route out of the city that passes through some of Detroit’s most historic neighborhoods. The vehicle’s journey is intercut with interviews with residents, workers and business owners encountered along the way, including members of a motorcycle club, sex workers, police officers and Ford Motor Company executives.
A third video, which is not being screened on July 12, documents the opening launch and celebration of Kelley’s public project. Site Gallery in Sheffield, England says of the footage, “Kelley interweaves a narrative between the fascinating and bizarre characters, drawing the viewer into the incredible, sometimes shocking and other times ordinariness of peoples’ lives. It is a street of strange encounters; from Albanian Mike at Mike’s Famous Ham Place, opposite the only Jewish deli in the city, and nestling behind it, a ‘life-style’ venue led by a local dominatrix.”
Mobile Homestead was commissioned by Artangel with support from the LUMA Foundation, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
 
Read more about Mobile Homestead in Kelley’s own words here: http://www.mocadetroit.org/Mobile-HomesteadEssay.html
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This program is supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Additional support generously provided by American Cinematheque. We also depend on our members, ticket buyers, and individual donors.
 
Los Angeles Filmforum is the city's longest-running organization screening experimental and avant-garde film and video art, documentaries, and experimental animation.  2014 is our 39th year.
 
Memberships available, $70 single, $115 dual, or $50 single student
Contact us at lafilmforum@yahoo.com.
Find us online at http://lafilmforum.org.
Become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @LosAngFilmforum! 

For more information, please call 626.396.4222 or visit 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1421096791509480/

No tickets are required. The event is free and open to the public.

This event is presented by Art Center College of Design in association with Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Los Angeles Filmforum and in conjunction with “Mike Kelley” at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Los Angeles Filmforum is pleased to co-present a screening and panel discussion of Mobile Homestead, a video series documenting Mike Kelley’s large-scale public art project on Saturday, July 12, 2014 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. in Art Center College’s Hillside Campus Ahmanson Auditorium, 1700 Lida Street in Pasadena. Free parking is available in the campus student lot. 

A permanent artwork situated in Downtown Detroit, Mobile Homestead is a full-scale replica of the 1950s Westland suburban home where Kelley grew up. It is designed to operate as a community gallery with a removable façade on wheels that Kelley imagined would travel and dispense ‘public services.’ The videos document the remarkable journey through Detroit’s urban and suburban landscapes reflecting Kelley’s interest in its socio-economically diverse communities, as well as themes of biography, history and memory. In interviews and his own writing, Kelley noted his ambivalence towards public art, believing it was often foisted on a public audience that didn’t want it. With typical humor and insight, Kelley’s Mobile Homestead slyly puts this belief to the test.

Bennett Simpson, curator of MOCA's current "Mike Kelley" exhibition; Patti Podesta, Graduate Art department faculty member at Art Center and Mary Clare Stevens, executive director of Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and Kelley’s studio manager from 2003 until 2012 will speak about the late artist throughout the July 12th program. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Jason Smith, prolific contemporary art scholar and associate chair of the Graduate Art department at Art Center.

11am: Diana Thater, welcome and opening remarks

11:15am: Bennett Simpson, Remarks

11:30am: Screening: Westbound
 - Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland
, 2010-­‐°©-­‐2011
color/sound,
1 hour 18 minutes

1pm-­‐2pm: Lunch Break

2pm: Patti Podesta, Remarks

2:15pm: Screening: Eastbound - 
Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit
, 2010-­‐°©-­‐2011
color/sound, 1 hour 18 minutes

3:30pm: Mary Clare Stevens, Remarks

3:45pm: Jason Smith and speakers, Panel discussion and Q&A

About the videos:

Kelley’s Mobile Homestead videos, Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland, 2010 (2011, color/sound, 78 min.) and Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit, 2010 (2011, color/sound, 78 min.), document  the Mobile Homestead’s route from its permanent location at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) to Kelley’s former family home in Westland and back again. The voyage takes viewers along Michigan Avenue, the main route out of the city that passes through some of Detroit’s most historic neighborhoods. The vehicle’s journey is intercut with interviews with residents, workers and business owners encountered along the way, including members of a motorcycle club, sex workers, police officers and Ford Motor Company executives.

A third video, which is not being screened on July 12, documents the opening launch and celebration of Kelley’s public project. Site Gallery in Sheffield, England says of the footage, “Kelley interweaves a narrative between the fascinating and bizarre characters, drawing the viewer into the incredible, sometimes shocking and other times ordinariness of peoples’ lives. It is a street of strange encounters; from Albanian Mike at Mike’s Famous Ham Place, opposite the only Jewish deli in the city, and nestling behind it, a ‘life-style’ venue led by a local dominatrix.”

Mobile Homestead was commissioned by Artangel with support from the LUMA Foundation, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Read more about Mobile Homestead in Kelley’s own words here: http://www.mocadetroit.org/Mobile-HomesteadEssay.html

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This program is supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Additional support generously provided by American Cinematheque. We also depend on our members, ticket buyers, and individual donors.

Los Angeles Filmforum is the city's longest-running organization screening experimental and avant-garde film and video art, documentaries, and experimental animation.  2014 is our 39th year.

Memberships available, $70 single, $115 dual, or $50 single student

Contact us at lafilmforum@yahoo.com.

Find us online at http://lafilmforum.org.

Become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @LosAngFilmforum!