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...crew of 'Poonsters led by President Brian A.Kelley '94 returned to the dormitory armed with anew table, a vacuum and mop, two dozen white rosesand a violinist. "I'm very sorry," Kelley said ashe attended the students, scrubbed beer off thewall and offered them a $200 gift certificate atGiovanni's, a restaurant in the North...
...hope to convince them that the Lampoon theysaw last night is not the Lampoon that we areproud of...They will drown in a flood ofapologies," Kelley said in an interview at thescene last night
...Kelley is best known for his soft sculptures involving found objects -- soiled, discarded stuffed toys, from teddy bears and bunnies to green plush snakes, which he sews together into teeming clumps or exhibits, in solitary pathos, on mats on the floor. You can cite a host of precedents for this, from Claes Oldenburg to Jackson Pollock, but the effect really depends on the nakedness with which Kelley presents the toys as elements in a free-form psychodrama about threat and vulnerability; they're like the dolls that witch- hunting lawyers use to elicit the evidence of children in abuse prosecutions...
...raging satirist," the catalog calls Kelley, but satire, like revenge, is a dish best cooked by skeptical adults and then eaten cold, and it takes more than Irishness and a fixation on excrement to make a Dean Swift. Still, we need to be reminded that adolescence is a cultural construct, a pathological condition invented by and for Americans -- and Kelley, at least, does that...
...weird, confessional work of Mike Kelley...