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Essay / mike - 808
Men wore shoes while women did not wear shoes but had chains around their ankles, which could suggest that women are less important and considered slaves to men. religious/worship performance and banners (400) Performance piece by Mike Kelley A projective reconstruction of an extracurricular activity, "Day is Done" involves taking a single photograph found in an extracurricular activity project from a school booklet, or photographs of drama productions within the school or yearbook photographs. From this single photograph, he would create a musical performance. While producing these shows, he was studying and exploring American folk culture through school activities. Kelley suggested that the activities of the schools were performed in a highly ritualistic and ritualized manner, making them parallel to artistic production. Siouxsie Sioux was a big influence for this piece, she is an English singer and songwriter, best known for being the lead singer of a rock band. called Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1976. Mike Kelley was very passionate about punk and rock music as a child. Observing from the audience's perspective, however, this play could be represented in a very different light, and the meanings could be quite different from Mike Kelley's current theory regarding this play. In the performance there is a woman dressed in dark clothes with a very white contrasting face, on her forehead there is a symbol "For you, I will interpret, the ruin on my forehead, this is a secret sign, from my own conception” > which in mathematical terms means “greater than” “I am beyond mathematics, my sign is greater than which implies that the woman is powerful and authoritative, which makes her appear omniscient and reliable”. . This piece could also be seen...... middle of paper ......pr. 2014].MIKE KELLEY 2014. [online] Mikekelley.com. .MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Mike Kelley. [online] Momaps1.org. Available at: [Accessed April 9, 2014]. the Guardian. [Accessed April 19, 2014]. Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Nancy Schreiber and Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin and Stacy Hruby. Editor: Paulo Padilha., 2010. Mike Kelley: “Day Is Done” | Art21 “Exclusive” Art 21. [image] Available on: [Consulted March 26. 2014].