Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether
From the music and performance portion of “Mike Kelley”
February 2, 2014
On the occasion of the opening of the first US retrospective of One of Mike Kelley’s first forays into popular culture was his album cover—a bedraggled stuffed orange toy—for the LP “Dirty”(1992) by Sonic Youth who had previously provided the sound for one of his early New York performances “Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s Chapel, Lincoln’s Profile” (1986). The singer of the band and longtime friend of Kelley’s, Kim Gordon, is joined by Jutta Koether, a visual artist, writer, and member of the artist band XXX Macarena. Having worked and performed together several times before Gordon and Koether will produce a unique event for the occasion.
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For more information on the exhibition Mike Kelley (2013) please visit: http://www.momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/374
The music and performance portion of “Mike Kelley” is organized by guest curator Mark Beasley with Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator and Eliza Ryan, former Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1.
Sunday Sessions is organized by Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator with Mike Skinner, Producer, Alex Sloane, Live Programming Coordinator and Rosey Selig-Addiss, Production Assistant.
Sunday Sessions and the VW Dome at MoMA PS1 are made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America.
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