Day is Done
L.A. art legend Mike Kelley’s newest work is a roughly 3-hour-long musical on film called Day is Done, and is screening tonight & tomorrow night at the Redcat Theater in L.A. (part of Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall). It’s the “world theatrical premiere”, although it was already shown about this time last year at Mr. Kelley’s New York gallery.
The film consists of dramatic enactments of various photographs found in high school yearbooks, woven together to form a narrative. Kelley often mines his own personal history for artistic material, with a knack for zeroing in on the more psychologically charged moments. So it’s no surprise then that the volatile terrain of high school is the focus here, that emotionally-fraught period of unruly pubescence vying with budding self-awareness (in a word: awww-kwerrrd).
