Smith’s artistic output takes the form of a multidisciplinary semiotic investigation into the ways in which cultural signs and signifiers can be read as artefacts. He examines how the meaning embedded in these artefacts fluctuates (and frequently deteriorates) in relation to ever-shifting sociopolitical contexts; often assuming a self-critical position which responds to his locality.
In 2020 Smith started the collaborative sonic project Dead Symbols together with Fernando Damon and Vusumzi Nkomo. An ongoing project that situates it’s practice at the intersection of sound and theory; it is an inquiry, or study, into the sonic properties of theory, or sound as a theoretical intervention. The group’s work draws from the vast pool of Black critical theory to make sense of the World and contemporary society; it’s attendant order of knowledge and relations of power.