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Our dear friend the artist Mike Kelley (born 1954 in Detroit) has passed away. Unstintingly passionate, habitually outspoken and immeasurably creative in every genre or material with which he took up—and that was most of them, from performance and sculpture to painting, installation and video, from experimental music to writing in a thousand voices—Mike was an irresistible force in contemporary art and the wider culture. For Mike, history existed only to be reconstructed, memory was selective, faulty and willful and life itself vibrant but often dysfunctional.
Kelley Studio and Emi Fontana, Kourosh Larizadeh, Paul and Karen McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Anita Pace, Jim Shaw, Mary Clare Stevens, Marnie Weber, John C. Welchman [for all Mike’s many friends near and far], Mike Kelley, Artist, Passes Away, for ForYourArt, February 2012.
On top of my shit.
My best friend was really sick today, throwing up and everything. Not only did she miss her exams for the day, but she has to pass a drug test tomorrow that she knows she isn’t going to pass.
Brought her:
- A medium Mountain Dew slurpee (her favorite flavor)
- An Easter egg shaped Reese’s cup (her favorite shape)
- A small cup of my sisters pee (uh yeah.)
Do I get the best friend ever award yet or what?
