Dancing Goth freaks, singing vampires, children in angle costumes, an aerobics class, the Virgin Mary and Satan himself are just some of the participants in the Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley's last, epic multi-genre video 'Day is Done' - an almost three hour long collective carnival filmed at an American high school, whose grey surroundings are in massive contrast to the maximum super show, which takes place at night in a nearby forest. The idea of 'Day is Done' originated with the discovery of a yearbook of social 'on campus' activities of the kind that range outside normal teaching. With Halloween as the arch-American example of a ritualised (and commercialised) deviation from normality, Kelley's ethnographic interest for subcultures is given free reign in the simultaneous 'restaging' of all festive rituals at once in something that, in his own words, mostly resembles zapping around between different TV channels. 'Day is Done' was originally exhibited as a 50-channel work at the Gagosian Gallery in New York.

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