{"title":"Mike Kelley","description":"\u003cp\u003eMike Kelley (1954–2012) was an American artist whose practice moved across sculpture, installation, performance, video, and sound. Emerging from the CalArts milieu of the late 1970s, Kelley developed a body of work that engaged with repressed memory, popular culture, institutional critique, adolescence, and the psychic residue of everyday American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis collaborations with Tony Oursler, Paul McCarthy, and Sonic Youth placed him at the centre of a network of artists working across disciplines in Los Angeles and New York during the 1980s and 90s. His performances at Artists Space, New York — including \u003cem\u003ePlato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile\u003c\/em\u003e (1986), recorded with Sonic Youth — are among the most significant documents of the period's overlap between art, performance, and experimental music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKelley died in January 2012. The Compound Annex reissue of his sound works was released the same year. Publications, recordings, and printed matter gathered here document his practice across its full range. Original and period items.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mike-kelley-platos-cave-rothkos-chapel-lincolns-profile-sonic-youth-peristaltic-airwaves-2012","title":"Mike Kelley — Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile (with Sonic Youth) \/ The Peristaltic Airwaves, Compound Annex, 2012","description":"\u003cp\u003e2-CD set in jewel case with booklet. 14 × 12 cm. Published by Compound Annex Records, Los Angeles, 2012. Compound #38, #39.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: New old stock. Factory sealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn increasingly uncommon document of Mike Kelley's sound and performance practice, issued shortly after the artist's death in January 2012. While not rare in the strict bibliographic sense, copies appear only intermittently on the secondary market and are collected by those interested in the intersections of contemporary art, performance, experimental music, and Sonic Youth-related material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisc One: Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile [55:36]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded live at Artists Space, New York, December 5, 1986. With Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley), Molly Cleator, and Adam Rudolph on didgeridoo. Assisted by Tony Oursler, Mary Jones, and Jennifer Bolande. Recorded by Carole Parkinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisc Two: The Peristaltic Airwaves [38:19]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerformed live on KPFK Radio, September 30, 1986. With Jack Skelley and Nic Greene, guitars; Dave Childs, drums; Nancy Evans, voice and horn. Co-produced by High Performance Magazine and Jacki Apple for Soundings on KPFK Pacifica Radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth works were previously available only in limited cassette form before being digitally remastered and reissued by Compound Annex in 2012. The title connects several recurring concerns in Kelley's practice — philosophy, psychology, popular culture, mythology, and institutional critique — while the involvement of Sonic Youth places the recording within the fertile overlap between the downtown New York art and experimental music scenes of the mid-1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin The New Rare object-register, the set operates as both artwork and record. Not merely a music release, it functions as retained evidence of a performance that otherwise survives only in fragments. The performance is gone; the recording remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. Carefully packed and shipped boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Compound Annex Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53624873025874,"sku":"KELLEY-COMPOUNDANNEX-PC-2012","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kelley_Mike._Plato_s_Cave_Rothko_s_Chapel_Lincoln_s_Profile_with_Sonic_Youth_The_Peristaltic_Airwaves._2012.jpg?v=1780377005"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/mike-kelley.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}