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Mobile Homestead is a permanent art work by the late Mike Kelley located in the grounds of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; a full-scale replica of the single-story ranch-style house in the Detroit suburb of Westland where Kelley grew up as a working class Roman Catholic, son of the cook at the executive dining room at the Ford Motor Company. The façade of the house can be detached and driven to neighbourhoods throughout the city offering public services on its travels, hence the work’s obvious paradox, permanence and mobility. It’s on the move in the three-part documentary Mobile Homestead 2010-11 (completed just before Kelley’s death) which was shown as part of the Cardiff Contemporary visual arts festival at g39 gallery late last year.
Screenshots of Mobile Homestead 2010–11. Images courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation
