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Mike Nelson
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Mike Nelson
In 2007, artist Mike Nelson transformed the disused interior of the Essex Street Market on New York's Lower East Side, taking audiences on a journey through his installation "A Psychic Vacuum," a series of reconstructed rooms and passageways filled with enigmatic props, clues and assemblies. Over the next two years, the artist meticulously recreated that journey in this superbly designed and fully illustrated artist's book.
Mike Nelson
To enter Mike Nelson's The Coral Reef is to enter a parallel world. Rooms, doors, passageways, all bear traces of habitation and decay. Different, often conflicting, ideologies or belief systems are presented through these traces. The implied occupants of Nelson's world appear to be detached from the political and economic centre, left to exist at the margins of globalised, capitalist society. The work's title alludes to this collection of complex, fragile belief systems that form an obscured layer - a coral reef - beneath the 'ocean surface' of prevailing orthodoxies. Nelson's absent protagonists occupy positions of resistance in the face of dominant ideologies. However, Nelson perhaps conveys a sense of inevitable futility about such resistance. In his words, he wants the spectator to feel 'lost in a world of lost people'.
Mike Nelson
Ramshackle doors and windows, raw steel girders, crumbling walls, dark stairwells and narrow, worn wooden stairs are all that remains of the dilapidated 1920s variety theater that has been rediscovered in Berlin Mitte. It is in these spaces, clearly marked by past decades, that the British artist Mike Nelson has made subtle, narrative interventions. At first they are hard to recognize, but they change the beholder's perception, leading them back to themselves. A carpenter's workshop seems long abandoned and traces of human activity can still be made out, yet this is, in fact, a construct of the artist, just like the spotlit theater stage. The highlight is a fragile light well à la James Turrell, which leads back outside into the Berlin sky, right in the middle of the book.0Exhibition: Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany (15.09.-13.10.2012). 0.
Mike Nelson
Essays by Peter Eeley, Richard Grayson, Ralph Rugoff and Rob Tufnell.
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Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters
Why do some people retain cute baby-talk names for their relatives (like "Num-Num" and "Pee-Paw") well into middle age? How should a reasonable person respond when Olivia Newton-John sings, "Have you never been mellow?" Who's responsible for the sorry state of men's fashion, and is it the same guy who invented the jerkin? Is there any future in being a Midwesterner? Can you really enjoy your lunch when the restaurant is decorated to look like an African plain? How come women keep dozens of bottles and jars of moisturizers, unguents, and lotions around -- all of them half empty? In more than 50 hilarious all-new essays, one of America's brightest young humorists -- the head writer and on-air host of the legendary TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- finds the fun in all aspects of the human condition, no matter how absurd. Join Mike Nelson on an angst-filled visit to a health spa; shopping sessions at Home Depot and Radio Shack; adventures in the very amateur musical theater; a gut-busting discourse on the history of television; ruminations on his roles as husband, father, and citizen; and much, much more.
Mike Nelson's Death Rat!
What if an aging, unsuccessful Minnesota author of history books with names like Old von Steuben Had a Farm: The German-American Settlement of the Midwest decided he could write a book every bit as vapid and ridiculous as the books that sold four hundred times more copies than his own? Well, he would write Death Rat, of course, the thrilling tale of a man who battles prejudice, his inner demons, and a cunning six-foot-long rat. And what if he was told by publishers that, at sixty years of age, though his book was a thrilling read, he just didn’t look the part of a virile writer of gripping adventure books featuring cunning six-foot-long rats? Well, he would cook up a scheme so outrageous, ...
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Mike Nelson
For the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011, Nelson elected to take as his starting point another of his own key works from the past decade, Magazin: Büyük Valide Han, originally built for the 8th International Istanbul Biennial in 2003. This accompanying publication includes newly commissioned texts by Dan Cameron and Rachel Withers, and colour plates of the new work in progress.
