Educational Complex Explained

Educational Complex
Artist:	Mike Kelley
Year:	1995
Medium:	Sculpture

Educational Complex is a 1995 artwork by Mike Kelley that recreates from imperfect memory every educational institution he attended as a connected architectural model. It is among his most famous works.^[1]

Further reading

• Book: Allen . Felicity . Education . 2011 . en . 978-0-262-51636-5 . Whitechapel Gallery . mdy-all .
• Book: Birnbaum . Daniel . Butler . Cornelia H . Cotter . Suzanne . Curiger . Bice . Enwezor . Okwui . Nickas . Robert . Educational Complex . Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks . 2011 . Phaidon Press . English . 978-0-7148-6209-5 . mdy-all .
• Web site: Butler . Connie . Go Back to School With Mike Kelley's 'Educational Complex' . Artspace . 2015-09-08 . english . 2023-08-18 . mdy-all . August 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230818153323/https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/book_report/phaidon-mike-kelley-educational-complex-53094 . live .
• Web site: 'Day Is Done' . Art21 . September 2005 . en . 2023-08-18 . mdy-all . March 31, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230331152848/https://art21.org/read/mike-kelley-day-is-done/ . live .
• Web site: Grimson . Karen . Off the Record: Mike Kelley's Extracurricular Activities . MoMA Inside Out . 2014-01-22 . 2023-08-18 . mdy-all . April 23, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210423132712/https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2014/01/22/off-the-record-mike-kelleys-extracurricular-activities/ . live .
• Web site: How Mike Kelley got from school to Superman . Phaidon . 2023-08-18 . mdy-all . May 27, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230527214140/https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2015/september/16/how-mike-kelley-got-from-school-to-superman/ . live .
• Kelley . Mike . Repressed Architectural Memory Replaced with Psychic Reality . ANY: Architecture New York . 15 . 36–39 . 1996 . 1068-4220 . 41852171 . mdy-all .
• Book: Pontégnie . Anne . Mike Kelley: Educational Complex Onwards 1995-2008 . 2010-01-31 . English . 978-3-905829-80-8 . JRP Ringier . Zürich . mdy-all .
• Book: Miller . John . Mike Kelley: Educational Complex . 2015 . MIT Press . English . 978-1-84638-151-5 . mdy-all .
• News: Schwabsky . Barry . Permission to Fail . . 2014-01-22 . en-US . 0027-8378 . mdy-all . August 18, 2023 . January 31, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230131095234/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/permission-fail/ . live .
• Singerman . Howard . The Educational Complex. Mike Kelley's Cultural Studies . October . 126 . 44–68 . 2008-10-01 . 10.1162/octo.2008.126.1.44 . 0162-2870 . 40368519 . 57568109 . mdy-all .
• Smith . Valerie . Something I've Wanted to Do But Nobody Would Let Me: Mike Kelley's 'The Uncanny' . Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry . 34 . 16–27 . 2013 . 34 . 10.1086/674184 . 1465-4253 . 10.1086/674184 . mdy-all .
• Book: Vidler . Anthony . Mike Kelley's Educational Complex . Mike Kelley . 1999 . English . 978-0-7148-3834-2 . Phaidon . London . mdy-all .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Steinhauer . Jillian . Welcome to Mike Kelley University . . 2014-01-24 . en-US . 2023-08-18 . mdy-all . July 12, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160712023158/http://hyperallergic.com/105186/welcome-to-mike-kelley-university/ . live .