Mike Kelley - Ericka Beckman - MOCA U - MOCAtv
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Described as a key figure of the Pictures Generation, filmmaker Ericka Beckman often uses games as structuring devices in films and videos that combine minimalist and punk aesthetics. Alongside her own body of work, Beckman has collaborated with many important artists and filmmakers, including Mike Kelley.
Beckman celebrates Kelley as an interlocutor and natural collaborator. Sharing an apartment in East Hollywood in the late 1970s, the two had a mutual interest in etymology, and in particular, the process of ascribing meaning to props. At his performances at California Institute of the Arts, Beckman observed a natural silent film actor, a physical, gestural performer.
The first of two collaborations with Kelley, The Broken Rule (1979) is a "poetic transcription" of Jean Piaget's theory of learning. In the film, Kelley performs the tension of assimilation, failing his team at various track and field contests that are metaphors for socialization. Beckman conceptualized the film's ending specifically for Kelley's character, a chanted question asking "if everybody does it, will it become a real rule or not."
"It was a beautiful coming together of two people who had the same sensibility, communicating and achieving everything that was needed," says Beckman. "Mike Kelley's performance ascribed to me a kind of style of shooting."
Directed by Emma Reeves
Shot by Dave Russo and Eric Teti of Dream Machine Creative
Edited by Tom Salvaggio and Owen Schwartzbard
Photos courtesy of Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and Ericka Beckman
All Kelley artworks (c) Estate of Mike Kelley
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Beckman celebrates Kelley as an interlocutor and natural collaborator. Sharing an apartment in East Hollywood in the late 1970s, the two had a mutual interest in etymology, and in particular, the process of ascribing meaning to props. At his performances at California Institute of the Arts, Beckman observed a natural silent film actor, a physical, gestural performer.
The first of two collaborations with Kelley, The Broken Rule (1979) is a "poetic transcription" of Jean Piaget's theory of learning. In the film, Kelley performs the tension of assimilation, failing his team at various track and field contests that are metaphors for socialization. Beckman conceptualized the film's ending specifically for Kelley's character, a chanted question asking "if everybody does it, will it become a real rule or not."
"It was a beautiful coming together of two people who had the same sensibility, communicating and achieving everything that was needed," says Beckman. "Mike Kelley's performance ascribed to me a kind of style of shooting."
Directed by Emma Reeves
Shot by Dave Russo and Eric Teti of Dream Machine Creative
Edited by Tom Salvaggio and Owen Schwartzbard
Photos courtesy of Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and Ericka Beckman
All Kelley artworks (c) Estate of Mike Kelley
Courtesy of Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Show less
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