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Mike Kelley: The Uncanny (Art Catalogue)

by Mike Kelley

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Taking Freud's idea of the Uncanny as a starting point, artist Mike Kelley plays Sunday curator ind presents work by Jasper Johns, Paul McCarthy, Jeff Koons, Tony Oursler, and others (reprinted from 1993 catalogue), plus photos of chewing gum wrappers, postcards, record covers, and toys, all connected to ideas of youth and the Uncanny.… (more)
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Published in conjunction
with the exhibition curated by Mike
Kelley (Arhem, Gemeentemuseum,
from June 5 to September 26, 1996)

“The uncanny is a somewhat mu
-
ted 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 parti
-
culars 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 sen
-
se of watching yourself from out
-
side 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
  petervanbeveren | Mar 2, 2023 |
Fine text by California-based artist Mike Kelley concerning late 20th Century aesthetic, psychological and narratological dimensions of contemporary art impulse, primary in the domains of installation, photography, popular culture and sculpture.
  philippocock | Jan 10, 2010 |
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Taking Freud's idea of the Uncanny as a starting point, artist Mike Kelley plays Sunday curator ind presents work by Jasper Johns, Paul McCarthy, Jeff Koons, Tony Oursler, and others (reprinted from 1993 catalogue), plus photos of chewing gum wrappers, postcards, record covers, and toys, all connected to ideas of youth and the Uncanny.

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