Michael Smith: MIKE'S BOX

For five decades, Michael Smith’s performance art has inhabited bland domestic spaces, mass media and its promise to keep us company and failing business ventures that misread the moment. Through art installations, theater, video, television, and live performances, Smith’s comedic work lives inside the identity models that both constitute and disassociate our shared experience. His two performance personae, Mike and Baby Ikki, plumb the depths of American culture to perform the discrepancies between what is promulgated by controlling interest and what actually exists in the reality of our day-to-day worlds. MIKE’S BOX is an immersive 8-disc DVD collection of his work up until now, including the complete collaborative video work of Smith with both Joshua White and Doug Skinner, collaborations with William Wegman, Seth Price, Mike Kelley and many others. It is accompanied by a richly illustrated book with an essay by Tim Griffin, featuring documentation from shows exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museo Jumex, along with filmed conversations between the artist, curators and collaborators.

MIKE'S BOX includes 8 DVDs along with a 128-page booklet packaged in a printed slipcase. Co-published by Drag City and ARTPIX.

DVD 1 Michael Smith Performances 1970s
DVD 2 Michael Smith Down in the Rec Room
DVD 3 Michael Smith Performances 1980s
DVD 4 Michael Smith Performances: The Remixes
DVD 5 Michael Smith Baby Ikki
DVD 6 Michael Smith Videos & Installations
DVD 7 Michael Smith & Joshua White Collaborations
DVD 8 Doug Skinner & Michael Smith Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment