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Michael Smith
August 13, 2024



Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.
The legendary performance, video, and installation artist Michael Smith joins Nate Heiges with a mixtape ranging from Mr. Rogers to sales tips for closers to some of the filthiest songs you’ve ever heard in your life. We discuss his career in comedy and performance and his process of taking inspiration from life, media, and thrift store sales bins.

Smith’s work revolves around a character named “Mike,” a modern-day Candide who spends time drinking coffee, watching TV, and exploring various careers, including comedy impresario and entrepreneur. Smith organized variety shows at storied NYC venues like the Pyramid Club and Danceteria, and eventually made a pilot for Cinemax of Mike’s Talent Show. This episode of the Selection Committee itself is organized a bit like a variety show, with music, comedy clips, and Mike’s inimitable sense of humor. How many people do you know who’ve hitched a ride on a city bus molassesed and feathered from head to toe on the South Side of Chicago? Or who’ve attended Burning Man as a big baby?

Smith’s piece Mike Builds a Shelter is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the spring of 2025, he will be putting out a boxed set of DVDS with many video works and documentation of performances, along with a 120-page catalog.

https://michaelsmithartist.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Smith_(performance_artist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBWpWKwSbTk

  1. Hi Mike, Paul Tripp
  2. Jackie Vernon, Jackie Vernon
  3. In My Room, The Beach Boys
  4. You Can't Hurry Love, The Supremes
  5. Cashing Objections Sales 1960, J Douglas Edwards
  6. 'Round Midnight, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Wilbur Ware, Shadow Wilson
  7. The Sound Heard Round the World, Muzak Orchestra
  8. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, James Brown
  9. You Send Me, Aretha Franklin
  10. I Like To Take My Time, Mister Rogers
  11. Doug Clark And The Hot Nuts Side 1 Intro, Doug Clark And The Hot Nuts
  12. Roly Poly, Doug Clark And The Hot Nuts
  13. Shitting On The Dock Of The Bay, Blowfly
  14. Petey Wheatstraw Shit Scene, Wildman Steve
  15. Knockers Up!, Rusty Warren
  16. He's the Greatest Dancer (Live Version), CHIC
  17. Ain't Too Proud To Beg, The Temptations
  18. Fun, Fun, Fun, The Beach Boys
  19. Won't You Be My Neighbor? Mister Rogers
  20. (What A) Wonderful World, Sam Cooke
  21. Airlines, Shelley Berman
  22. Up, Up and Away, The 5th Dimension
  23. Air Traffic Controller, Bob Newhart
  24. Bob The Builder Full theme song
  25. P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation), Ornette Coleman
  26. ABC, The Jackson 5
  27. Growing Up Is Fun, Paul Tripp
  28. Wimoweh - Live, The Kingston Trio
  29. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, The Partridge Family
  30. National Lampoon Kung Fu Christmas
  31. Party And Bullshit In The USA, Notorious BIG and Miley Cyrus
  32. Skybird - Instrumental, Neil Diamond
  33. Forever In Blue Jeans, Neil Diamond
  34. Somewhere Over the Rainbow,  Judy Garland, 1939

Michael Smith is a performance, video, and installation artist who has exhibited widely at fine art and popular venues, including museums, galleries, theaters, festivals, nightclubs, television, online, and in the street. His work has been shown internationally at the 2017 Sculpture Project, Münster; Glasgow International; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; The Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Hales Gallery, London; Dan Gunn Gallery, Berlin; Ellen De Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam; Le Magasin, Grenoble; Mumok, Vienna; Jeu de Paume and Pompidou Center, Paris; Blanton Museum, Austin; ICA, Philadelphia among others.

In New York City his work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, and Greene Naftali, New York.

His works are in the collections of MoMA and Paley Center for Media, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Migros Museum, Zurich; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brazil.

Smith has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T., New York Foundation for the Arts, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and Alpert Award in the Arts.

Pictured: Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter Snack Bar, 1983/2023, currently on view at MoMA, New York.