Exhibition
This Is Offal
Mary Reid Kelley
Uncertain Places. Eine Nachtausstellung
This Is Offal © Mary Reid Kelley
A pun-filled work of existentialist feminist horror, “This Is Offal” by Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley ghoulishly enacts Camus’ philosophy of the absurd as a counter to suicide. As the organs liver, heart and brain argue over what happened at night in the pathology room, they also deny any hope of a rational, unified explanation for the most tragic and motivationally complex of human actions. Mary Reid Kelley, born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1979, often produces her videos in collaboration with her partner Patrick Kelley. “This Is Offal” is their first work for a live audience, debuting at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Performance and set design Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley
This Is Offal
© Mary Reid Kelley
William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance, 2015. Video still
© courtesy the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery (New York, Paris, London), Goodman Gallery (Johannesburg, Cape Town) and Lia Rumma Gallery (Naples, Milan)
Guilty Landscapes
© Kevin McElvaney
Guilty Landscapes
© Mocke J van Veuren, skyline photo by Chris7cn
“This Is Offal” is commissioned as part of Corpus, network for performance practice, and is produced by Playground (STUK Kunstencentrum & M-Museum, Leuven) and co-produced by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berliner Festspiele / Foreign Affairs.
Corpus is Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao), CAC (Vilnius), KW (Berlin), If I Can’t Dance (Amsterdam), Playground (STUK & M, Leuven), and Tate Modern (London). Corpus is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. www.corpusnetwork.org