at Dundee Contemporary Arts
08 September - 25 November 2018
The Mobile Homestead film trilogy had its Scottish premiere at Dundee Contemporary Arts. The films which chart the changing demographics of Kelley's hometown of Detroit, over the artists lifetime were presented in Dundee at a time when the residents of the city were questioning its post-industrial prospects and future development.
Image: Mike Kelley, Mobile Homestead, 2010 presented at Dundee Contemporary Arts in 2018. Photo: Ruth Clark
at g39
Cardiff, 22 October - 17 December 2016
Mike Kelley’s trilogy of films Mobile Homestead was presented at g39 in Cardiff to coincide with Cardiff Contemporary and Artes Mundi. It was shown alongside an installation the artist S Mark Gubb made in response to Kelley's work. In 'Revelations: The Poison of Free Thought Part II' Gubb blends and re-appropriates vivid imagery from historical moments in politics, science and culture to pick away at the shiny veneer of ‘white picket fence’ American suburbia and expose a twisted, underbelly reality.
Image: S Mark Gubb, Revelations: The Poison of Free Thought Part II installed alongside Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead at g39, Cardiff in 2016. Photograph: Courtesy g39, Cardiff
at Site Gallery
Sheffield, 8 June - 20 July 2013
In 2010, Laura Sillars worked on the Mobile Homestead project in Detroit for four months as the Location Producer. Laura subsequently became the Artistic Director of Site Gallery in Sheffield and showed the film trilogy there, alongside documentation and audio recordings from the production process.
Image: Mike Kelley, Mobile Homestead, 2010-11 at Site Gallery, Sheffield. Photograph: Courtesy Site Gallery, Sheffield