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SUMMARY:John Kelly Sideways into the Shadows
DESCRIPTION:An Exhibition in Conjunction with Kelly’s Performance Time No Line at La MaMa\nOpening Reception: February 28\, 6–8 PM\nHowl! Happening is pleased to present a rare look into the heart and art of a consummate creator: John Kelly’s Sideways into the Shadows. Resonating and in conversation with Kelly’s major new performance work Time No Line at La MaMa (February 22–March 11\, 2018)\, Sideways into the Shadows is a journey through Kelly’s creative life that exposes both the unfolding of his artistic process and the generational rupture and emotional cost of the AIDS pandemic. \nThe exhibition consists of intimate and revealing journal entries\, rendered by hand on various sized panels\, and a memorial wall of lovingly-drawn portraits of friends and loved ones Kelly lost to AIDS. “Beginning in 1982\, my friends and colleagues were dying\,” says Kelly. “AIDS has framed my story to an unavoidable degree. Their absence remains part of my work.” \nThe 70 hand-rendered transcriptions of dated journal entries are drawings on paper\, mounted on panels installed as a horizontal timeline. Alternating raw and honest\, funny\, provocative\, and deeply felt\, the drawings illuminate his artistic trajectory and reveal the intertwined worlds of clubs\, drag\, gender\, sex\, and Kelly’s own creative and personal process of navigating incomprehensible loss. Filled with ideas\, sketches\, poems\, and plans for performances\, the pages—going back to 1976—are also full of humor\, gossip\, observation\, and cultural commentary as he witnessed the world around him transform. \nThe memorial wall of portraits is comprised of 40 graphite drawings on paper mounted on panels—renderings of gifted individuals that were part of Kelly’s life and creative circles—including such cultural luminaries as Sam Wagstaff\, Hugh Steers\, Peter Hujar\, Cookie Mueller\, Charles Ludlam\, and Ethyl Eichelberger\, as well as other individuals whose legacies have received less attention. The impulse behind these portraits stems from Kelly’s habit (as a survivor of the AIDS epidemic) of pondering a scenario where his generation had not been lost to the epidemic\, a world in which they would be flourishing and in their prime. As a balm to this tantalizing but painful fantasy\, Kelly pays tribute to the men\, women\, and trans folk who held crucial and supportive roles in his life and work as it unfolded over the past 36 years. \nTogether with the performances at La MaMa\, this exhibition displays one artist’s personal journey—his choices\, doubts\, creative processes\, and triumphs—making art that consciously tells stories\, witnesses\, and demonstrates a unique activism and commitment in the face of absolute catastrophe. \nAs Kelly explains\, “From this vantage point\, it was a challenging time. It’s still hard to get my head around it. This exhibition and Time No Line are my way to process the entire range of how my personal experiences and the arc of my artistic career intertwined into a coherent whole during a time that was both exhilarating and tragic.” \nLeaving behind his early focus as a dancer\, Kelly attended the Parsons School of Design in the 70s\, eventually immersing himself in the thriving Downtown and East Village scene\, including his debut at the Anvil in 1979 and subsequent creative development in clubs such as Club 57\, the Pyramid\, 8BC\, and Danceteria. He has had an extensive career as a performance and visual artist\, musician\, and poet. His visual art has been exhibited at Alexander Gray Associates\, New York; The Arts Center at Governors Island\, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art\, Philadelphia; The Kitchen\, New York; MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma\, Rome; MIT List Visual Arts Center\, Cambridge\, MA; the Museum of Modern Art\, New York; and the New Museum\, New York\, among other venues. \nThe Museum of Modern Art acquired two filmed versions of Kelly’s early performance works\, created in collaboration with filmmaker Anthony Chase\, in 2017. \nResidencies include The American Academy in Rome\, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard\, Bard College\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, MacDowell Colony\, MASS MoCA\, Park Avenue Armory\, Yaddo\, Civitella Ranieri\, the Bogliasco Foundation\, and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab. \nABOUT JOHN KELLY
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/john-kelly-sideways-into-the-shadows/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery
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SUMMARY:John Kelly The Dying Game
DESCRIPTION:Film sequences by Anthony Chase for live performance works by John Kelly 1984–1993\nVideo works by John Kelly 2000–2014\nThe heightened realities of life and death have consistently informed John Kelly’s performance works. Beginning his career in the clubs of New York’s East Village\, this proclivity for the grand gesture and epic consequence was exhibited in short performances such as The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (1981)\, Orpheus and Eurydice (1981)\, Death of Marat (1984)\, Narcissus (1983)\, Death In Dallas (1983\, about the Kennedy assassination)\, St. George Killed the Dragon (1985)\, and The Forces of Destiny (1983). \nAs his career developed\, he continued to create more complex works based on similar themes. These gestures were also informed by the loss of a lover in 1982 to the AIDS epidemic. Loss and struggle affected the community in which he worked\, informing Kelly’s choice of subject matter while addressing issues of life and death both directly and metaphorically. \nKelly’s early collaborations with filmmaker Anthony Chase resulted in a significant body of work\, creating film sequences as 8mm and 16mm projections for his live performance works. Most of these have not been seen publicly since their premiere. Also included in the program are recent video works by Kelly. \nFilm sequences by Anthony Chase for live performance works by John Kelly 1984-1992 \nPASS THE BLUTWURST\, BITTE (1984) Anthony Chase and John Kelly\n‘The Death of Egon Schiele’\, 2:30 B&W Super 8mm film \nDIARY OF A SOMNAMBULIST (1985) Anthony Chase and John Kelly\n‘Party’ and ‘Transformation Scene’\, 5:30 B&W Super 8mm film \nGO WEST JUNGER MANN (1984) Anthony Chase and John Kelly\n‘East German Graffiti Artist Dreams of Rapunzel’ and ‘The Dying Swan’\, 3:30 B&W Super 8mm film \nFIND MY WAY HOME (1988) Anthony Chase and John Kelly\n‘Do Not Kill Yourself’\, 1:50 B&W Super 8mm film \nLOVE OF A POET (1990) Anthony Chase and John Kelly\n‘Dream’ and ‘Dirt’\, 5:00 B&W Super 8mm film \nMAYBE IT’S COLD OUTSIDE (1991) Anthony Chase and John Kelly\n‘Visit to the Doctor’\, 2:38 B&W Super 8mm film with hand coloring \nDIVINE PROMISCUE (1992) Anthony Chase and John Kelly\n‘Mona Lisa Visits the Graveyard’\, 2:00 B&W Super 8mm film \nLIGHT SHALL LIFT THEM (1993) Anthony Chase and John Kelly\n‘The Audition of Vander Barbette’\, 7:00 16mm B&W \nVideo works by John Kelly 2000–2014 \nBROTHER (2000) John Kelly\n‘This Solid Ground—T Cells’\, 3:05 color video with analog animation \nMUSE ASCENDING A STAIRCASE (2012) John Kelly\n‘The Dying Swan Boy’\, 5:30\, HD video\, color and sound\n‘I’m Lost to the World’\, 5:02 HD video\, color \nTHE ESCAPE ARTIST (2014) John Kelly\n‘You Only Live Twice’\, 4:00 HD video\, color \nImage: Film still from Diary of a Somnambulist (1986). L-R: George M. Carter\, Stephen Tashjian (Tabboo!)\, Philly Abe\, George Carstens\, Hapi Phace
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/john-kelly-the-dying-game/
LOCATION:NY
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