The Department of Art and Art History is pleased to present a Stieren Arts Enrichment event featuring the on-site film screening of Day Is Done, 2005-2006, written and directed by Mike Kelley.
Film Screening:
Mike Kelley, Day Is Done, March 23, 6–9pm, Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, Dicke Art Building.
Day Is Done is a feature-length film which oscillates between irreverent humor and dreamlike sequences sourced from hundreds of “extracurricular activity” photos culled from high school yearbooks which represent (according to director, Mike Kelley) “socially accepted rituals of deviance.” Kelley restaged scenes found in the extracurricular activity photos in this a genre-smashing epic in which vampires, dancing Goths, hillbillies, mimes and demons come together in a kind of subversive musical theater/variety revue.
Mike Kelley remains one of the seminal American artists of our time. HIs idiosyncratic body of work includes performance art, installations, and sculptures. His works negotiate a highly charged terrain of desire, dread and sociopathology in everyday American life. Kelley is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), and The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) among many other notable institutions.
This film series is part of the Stieren Arts Enrichment Series and pairs Marnie Weber’s feature film The Day of Forevermore with this special screening of Mike Kelley’s Day Is Done. The film series accompanies the lecture, current Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery exhibition, and publication of Marnie Weber, Unreal Paradise: Collage Works from 1992-2022. Additionally, the world premiere of Weber’s latest short film, The Cabin of Mothra Crone is available online viewing (visit @neidorffgallery for access). These events are made possible by the generosity of Jane Stieren Lacy and the late Arthur Stieren.
On-Site Screening Location:
Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, Dicke Art Building
Trinity University
One Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212