Issue #39 Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence: The Voice in Mike Kelley’s Music

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence: The Voice in Mike Kelley’s Music

Mark Beasley

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Issue #39
November 2012










Notes
1

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Divine Li­tur­gy of St. James, 4th Cen­tu­ry A.D.

2

Mike Kelley, Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002), 101.

3

“Speculum musicae,” in Music, Words and Voice: A Reader, ed. Martin Clayton Coussemaker (Manchester, UK: Manchester Univ. Press Music, 2008).

4

13th Century papal decree, Pope John XXII.

5

Not for Sale: Noise Panel, 2009. Artists Space, organized by Mark Beasley, Performa 09, NYC.

6

Mike Kelley in conversation with Lee Ranaldo and Mark Beasley, Performa 09: Back to Futurism, (Performa publications: 2010).

7

“Carly Mike Kelley: An Interview,” Carly Berwick, Art in America, (Nov. 2009)

8

“To the Throne of Chaos Where The Thin Flutes Pipe Mindlessly.” See .

9

Nicole Rudick et al., Return of the Repressed:Destroy All Monsters 1973–1977 (New York: PictureBox, 2011).

10

“To the Throne of Chaos Where The Thin Flutes Pipe Mindlessly.”

11

Nicole Rudick et al., Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973-1977, (New York: PictureBox, 2011).

12

Mike Kelley, Catholic Tastes, Whitney Abrams, 1993.

13

“To the Throne of Chaos Where The Thin Flutes Pipe Mindlessly.”

14

Carly Berwick, “Mike Kelley: An Interview by Carly Berwick,” Art in America (Nov. 2009) 170–175.

15

Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, Poetics Project, (Watari-UM, 1997).

16

Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, Poetics Project, (Watari-UM, 1997) See .

17

Wintersole also appears in the performance work Confusion(1982), and a component slide presentation titled An Actor Portrays Boredom and Exhibits His Knick Knack Collection, which shows a sequence of images of the actor with his frog collection assembled on a table.

18

Memory, Art 21 interview with Mike Kelley, Youtube, PBS, 2005.

19

EAPR#2 (Party Train), Day is Done: A Film by Mike Kelley, Microcinema, 2009.

The extended version of this text is to appear in a forthcoming publication on The Voice in Performance. The research and subsequent publication is a result of the practice-led Fine Art Ph.D program at Reading University, UK.