Mike Kelley

Ghost and Spirit

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

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Tate Publishing
14 May 2024

Art & Architecture; 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.

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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, Fiontan Moran (Curator, International Art, Tate Modern)
Imprint: Tate Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781849768573
ISBN 10: 1849768579
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 14 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Catherine Wood is Director of Programme at Tate Modern, and curator of contemporary art and performance. Fiontan Moran is Curator of International Art at Tate Modern