1984Nominee
Best Performance
Go for It, Mike
Michael Smith
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Biography
Michael Smith is a video, installation and performance artist who invokes the routines of popular comedy to articulate the banality and hype of mass consumer culture, and the isolation of those whose inner lives are defined by it. In a series of videotapes, performances and installations, which he has produced since the late 1970s, Smith chronicles the trivial dreams and adventures of his eponymous alter-ego, the bland, deadpan "Mike," a postmodern Everyman who believes everything and understands nothing in his media-saturated world.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1980Nominee
Best Performance
Secret Horror
1986Nominee
Best Director
The World of Photography
Career Highlights
1987Highlight
Best Performance
MIKE
1994Highlight
Best Performance
Doug and Mike's Adult Entertainment