HOME WELCOME My name is Michael Smit; I am a Dutch artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area (USA) and the Netherlands who creates temporary, situation-specific art projects at public sites, as contexts for co-creation and worldmaking. You could label me as a relational and interventionist artist. Feel free to sign up for the occasional email news update. Enjoy the site!     HOME •     Welcome News                           NEWS This Show Needs You From March 28 - May 17, 2008, my ongoing (2004-present) investigative, interventionist, and performative project How have you been an artist today? will be part of This Show Needs You, a seven week exhibition that "relies on audience members to co-author the work. It includes workshops, conversations and related programs." The artists whose works are featured in this exhibition are: Susanne Cockrell & Ted Purves with Joseph McHenry, Lori Gordon, Christian Jankowski, Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July, Linda Montano, Michael Smit, Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, and Sara Thacher. You're welcome to participate! Join my artist talk at the gallery on Wednesday May 14, 12-1pm. Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice From May 15-17, 2008, I will participate in Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice. This three-day conference will be hosted by the University of California Santa Cruz. Concurrently with the conference there will be a series of exhibitions hosted by: the Art department and the Sesnon Gallery at UCSC; the LAB, San Francisco; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose.                   "Interventionist practices use interruptions to question norms by using humor, surprise, and unusual associations to overturn assumptions about the world. Such practices work within societal structures to re-examine set ideas, subvert norms, map hidden systems and allow us to see and think in new ways."       Back to the top

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