Mike's World
  • exhibition catalogue
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26.5 x 20.5 cm.
  • 140 pp.
  • edition size 1600
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780977145393

Mike's World

Michael Smith, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Mike Kelley, Jay Sanders, Ingrid Schaffner, Regine Basha

Mike's World

description

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, September 11 - December 30, 2007. Traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 24 - August 3, 2008. Essays by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Michael Smith, Mike Kelley, Jay Sanders, Ingrid Schaffner, and Regine Basha. "Mike's World takes a tightly focused view of a single ... Smith performance persona, 'Mike,' as it has developed over the course of many years and through innumerable presentation formats. The character Mike functions metaphorically as a kind of ever-hopeful Candide, adrift in a world of rapid technological advances that he seems incapable of fully comprehending, and stymied by the depersonalization and isolation that have accompanied late twentieth-century life. Ironic in its sharp personification of failure, but also hilarious and poignant, Smith's work mirrors our most human concerns about competency and comfort. Underscoring the hybrid nature of Smith's art, the works reproduced in this colorful paperback book also highlight his last decade of video and installation collaborations with artist-director Joshua White." -- publisher's statement.

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