ARTFORUM
Mike Kelley and Michael Smith
SCULPTURECENTER
NEW YORK
Through November 30
Curated by Mary Ceruti and Emi Fontana
Bath Mike Kelley and Michael Smith are known for works in
performance and video art, and both consistently return to the
dark substrata of American popular culture for aesthetico-
conceptual inspirational dread. This show, organized by
‘SculptureCenter together with West of Rome in Los Angeles,
features a new collaborative installation by Kelley and Smith, A
Voyage of Growth and Discovery, 2009. In addition toan
eighteen-foot-high baby made from junk, and a playground, the
installation features a four-channel video that stars Smith's 4
character Baby Ikki visiting the Burning Man festival— the perfect RS
place for a mute, ambiguously sexed toddler.
—David Rimanelll Mike Kelley and Michael Smith, A Voyage of
Growth and Discovery, 2008, production sill