John Kelly Performance

PERFORMANCE WORKS 1985-2022

2024 INVERSIONS
2019/2022 UNDERNEATH THE SKIN
2019 WEILL BOY, BRECHT GIRL, EISLER MANN
2019 THE CRAZY CRIES OF LOVE
2017/2018 TIME NO LINE
2017 DOWN TO YOU: JOHN KELLY SINGS JONI MITCHELL
2016 BEAUTY KILLS ME
2015 LOVE OF A POET (reconstruction/revision)
2014 ESCAPE ARTIST REDUX (Video Installation)
2013 REBEL SONGS OF A RANGE QUEEN
2013 CARAVAGGIO SONGS: MUSIC FROM THE ESCAPE ARTIST
2012 MUSE ASCENDING A STAIRCASE (Video Installation & Photography Exhibition)
2012 John Kelly & Dargelos
2011 THE ESCAPE ARTIST
2011 FIND MY WAY HOME (reconstruction/revision)
2010 COHESION
2010 PASS THE BLUTWURST, BITTE (reconstruction/revision)
2009/10 PAVED PARADISE REDUX
2009 SONGS FOR A SHINY HOT NIGHT: JONI MITCHELL’S COURT AND SPARK
2008 Dargelos at Bar 13
2007 CARA VIAGGIO
2007 MUSIC FOR ROMANIANS
2006 MRS HAMLET
2006 21st CENTURY VOX
2002/05 SHINY HOT NIGHTS
2004 THE SKIN I’M IN
2003 GET UP AND JIVE
2002 THE PARADISE PROJECT
2001 BROTHER
1999 MOONDRUNK
1999 CAFE BLUEBEARD HOF
1998 SING LOW SWEET LOVE
1998 LIFE OF CRUELTY
1998 FIND MY WAY HOME
1997 PAVED PARADISE
1996 20th CENTURY VOX
1995 CONSTANT STRANGER
1995 PASS THE BLUTWURST, BITTE (reconstruction)
1994 FAR CRY FROM BLISS
1993 LIGHT SHALL LIFT THEM
1993 I WANT YOUR MYTH
1992 AKIN: TRUE BUT DOUR
1992 ARIAS I LOVE
1992 DIVINE PROMISCUE
1991 DOWN IN THE MOUTH
1991 HER TENDER MOMENT
1990 LOVE OF A POET
1990 THE DAGMAR ONASSIS STORY (revision for THE DECADE SHOW at The New Museum)
1990 CUPID AND DEATH
1990 MAYBE IT’S COLD OUTSIDE
1988 ODE TO A CUBE
1988 FIND MY WAY HOME
1986 BORN WITH THE MOON IN CANCER
1986 PASS THE BLUTWURST, BITTE
1985/6 DIARY OF A SOMNAMBULIST
1985 GO WEST JUNGER MANN
1985 JOHN KELLY SINGS
1985 LONG LIVE THE KNIFE

PERFORMANCE WORKS IN CLUBS 1980-1985