Difference between revisions of "Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley on the Universal World Church"
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<blockquote>MK: You did a booklet in the style of ''Awake''. There was also a golden altar--didn't that reference the altar at the Universal World Church, which is a strange charismatic church where they mix Christian and UFO beliefs? | <blockquote>MK: You did a booklet in the style of ''Awake''. There was also a golden altar--didn't that reference the altar at the Universal World Church, which is a strange charismatic church where they mix Christian and UFO beliefs? | ||
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JS: Yes, the church run by Dr. Jaggers and Miss Velma--that was a part of it. When I went to a service there they had a booklet about meetings with UFOs; the motherships were supposed to be seraphim and the smaller ones cherubim. Watching them on TV every week certainly influenced me.</blockquote> | JS: Yes, the church run by Dr. Jaggers and Miss Velma--that was a part of it. When I went to a service there they had a booklet about meetings with UFOs; the motherships were supposed to be seraphim and the smaller ones cherubim. Watching them on TV every week certainly influenced me.</blockquote> | ||
Revision as of 19:15, 2 April 2012
The following is an excerpt from an interview between Los Angeles based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw. This dialog is published identically in the books Mike Kelley: Interviews, Conversations, and Chit-chat, 1986-2004[1] and "Jim Shaw:Everything Must Go, 1974-1999".
MK: You did a booklet in the style of Awake. There was also a golden altar--didn't that reference the altar at the Universal World Church, which is a strange charismatic church where they mix Christian and UFO beliefs?
JS: Yes, the church run by Dr. Jaggers and Miss Velma--that was a part of it. When I went to a service there they had a booklet about meetings with UFOs; the motherships were supposed to be seraphim and the smaller ones cherubim. Watching them on TV every week certainly influenced me.
References
- ↑ Kelley, Mike (2005). Mike Kelley: interviews, conversations, and chit-chat, 1986-2004. JRP/Ringier. pp. 279. ISBN 3905701006. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
