Mike Kelley

Ghost and Spirit

Catherine Wood, Fiontán Moran (Curator, International Art, Tate Modern)

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Tate Publishing
30 July 2024

Individual artists, art monographs

TATE Modern Exhibition, 2 October 2024 - 9 March 2025 Mike Kelley (1954-2012) is widely considered one of the most influential artists of our time, with an irreverent and visionary practice that spanned and mixed performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, photography, sound, text and sculpture. Ghost and Spirit looks at his dense and colourful body of work, from early performances, to his iconic stuffed toy works, and on to his explorations of history, memory and trauma as they haunt our experiences of school or family. Asking prescient questions about how to exist among a world of media images, about the role of art and the artist, and about embodiment, Kelley adopted different personas and mediums, deliberately deflating his own status, and from his own position as a white, heterosexual man in postmodern, capitalist America, he challenged assumptions about identity, class and institutional authority. Bringing together a range of diverse perspectives which summon his 'lingering influence' (to paraphrase the artist), this book captures the complexity and persistent relevance of Kelley's extraordinary practice.

Edited by: Catherine Wood, Fiontán Moran (Curator, International Art, Tate Modern)
Imprint: Tate Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781849768979
ISBN 10: 1849768978
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 30 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Catherine Wood is Director of Programme at Tate Modern, and curator of contemporary art and performance. At Tate she has co-curated numerous exhibitions including The World as a Stage (2007), Pop Life (2010) and A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance (2012), as well as co-directing the opening programme for the Tate Tanks in 2012 titled, Art in Action. She has programmed numerous performance works at Tate since 2003, including works by Mark Leckey, Joan Jonas, Guy de Cointet, Jiri Kovanda and Sturtevant, and initiated the online project, Performance Room in 2011. Wood is author of Yvonne Rainer: The Mind is a Muscle (2007, Afterall/MIT Press). A regular contributor to Afterall, Artforum and Mousse magazines, she has also written numerous catalogue essays, recently on Joachim Koester, Piotr Uklanski and Sung Hwan Kim. Fiontán Moran is Curator, International Art at Tate Modern.