The Occupation: Mind, Body, Spirit This performance work presents a historical reflection on issues of race, entitlement, ownership of resources, of people and objects as property. I am supported in this piece by Ms. Kit Vogelsang. Kit earned a Masters Degree in Performance Studies at Bretton Hall (University of Leeds) during which time she began...

This performance took place at Fountain Art Fair, Miami 2011 during Art Basel. I traveled to perform and exhibit with a cohort from Grace Exhibition Space (New York) and Solo(s) Project House (New Jersey). Photos by Anthony Alvarez This performance reflects on spiritual skirmishes between Africans in colonial/post-colonial West Indies and their European subjugators who...

This performance is a generalized reflection of European colonial judicial systems which existed in the West Indies and Africa and the people’s resistance to the unjust laws and sentences carried out by representatives of the colonizers. Photos By: NES & Ariel DeAndrea Video by: Erik Hokensen for Grace Exhibition Space 17mins. 01sec.

This performance is an emotional and psychological exploration of the implications of subjugation during the colonial and post-colonial periods Africa and West Indies. Trough a series of actions, Smith intertwines the trinity of the Common Man, the Armed Forces/Militia, and Colonial Rulers in his site-specific installation to reference concepts of spirituality, guilt, coping strategies and...