February 10, 2012
Top, screen capture from The Banana Man, 1983, by Mike Kelley, 28:15 min, one-channel vide. Bottom, photograph by Nadja Bournonville, The Change, Sweden, 2009, Analog c-print, 45 x 45 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP. Via. — Tape recording and photography allowed people to become aware of what was invisible to them for the first time. We’re surrounded by invisibility. That’s what I think art can do-make things visible. (…) I chose to become an artist because I wanted to be a failure. When I was young, if you wanted to really ostracize yourself from society, you became an artist. Mike Kelley, for Interview Magazine, 2009.

Top, screen capture from The Banana Man, 1983, by Mike Kelley, 28:15 min, one-channel vide. Bottom, photograph by Nadja Bournonville, The Change, Sweden, 2009, Analog c-print, 45 x 45 cm, Ed. 5 + 2AP. Via.

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Tape recording and photography allowed people to become aware of what was invisible to them for the first time. We’re surrounded by invisibility. That’s what I think art can do-make things visible.

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I chose to become an artist because I wanted to be a failure. When I was young, if you wanted to really ostracize yourself from society, you became an artist.

Mike Kelley, for Interview Magazine, 2009.

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