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Mike Kelley: Mobile Homestead – Screenings

24 May 2013 at 16.00–19.00
25 May 2013 at 16.00–19.00
26 May 2013 at 16.00–19.00
Mike Kelley, Mobile Homestead, 2010. Courtesy of Artangel, © The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Photograph by Corine Vermuelen

Mike KelleyMobile Homestead 2010

Courtesy of Artangel © The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Photograph by Corine Vermuelen

  • Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland
  • Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit
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Tate Film and Artangel present the Mobile Homestead videos, part of Mike Kelley’s last major project, a public commission for his native city of Detroit based on a life-sized replica of his family’s suburban home.

The videos document the homestead’s journey from downtown Detroit to the Kelleys’ original home in Westland and back again, alongside interviews with an array of local residents, including bikers, church officials, strippers, social workers and used car salesmen.

Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland

Mike Kelley, USA, 2010–11, 76 min
The first of the Mobile Homestead videos follows a full-size replica of Kelley’s family house front as it travels from downtown Detroit to its original location in suburban Westland, encountering and documenting urban decay and deep socio-economic disparities along the way.

Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit

Mike Kelley, USA 2010–11, 76 min
In the second part of the documentary, the Mobile Homestead journeys back to its final location in downtown Detroit, outside the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), as interviews with local residents cast a bleak but revelatory picture of life in the Midwest.

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24 May 2013 at 16.00–19.00

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    1954–2012
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