Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
415.978.2787
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Mike Kelley, Day Is Done (Mouvement Portfolio #7), Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
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Thursday May 29, 2008 (7pm)
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$8
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YBCA presents this reprise screening of Mike Kelley's Day Is Done. Distilling what art critic Jerry Saltz called the "clusterfuck aesthetic" of Kelley's sprawling 2005 mixed-media installation of the same name into an epic pseudo-musical, Day Is Done is a deeply fractured fairy tale in which high-school clichés and suburban monsters populate a looking-glass version of youth culture. The 31 loosely intertwined episodes surreally reconstruct found yearbook photos depicting a variety of performance-centered activities — dress-up days, special assemblies, concerts. The resulting two-hour-plus video recalls the color-saturated occultism of Kenneth Anger's films, but Kelley's rituals seem more in the service of regression therapy (via Waiting for Guffman) than the black arts.
