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Adrian Piper: A Reader
Published in conjunction with MoMA’s retrospective exhibition and in collaboration with the artist, this scholarly volume presents new critical essays that expand on Piper’s practice in ways that have been previously under- or unaddressed.
Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom
Ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
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A series of written artists’ instructions, each of which is interpreted anew every time it is enacted. Instructions here were part of the Manchester International Festival at the Manchester Art Gallery, 2013.
Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s catalogue
Newspaper format catalogue. White Columns, New York, 13 September – 20 October 2002.
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self- objectification, transforming themselves into art objects.
The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America, 1970-1980
A detailed study of the role women artists played in the develpment and expansion of performance art
Sonic Somatic: Peformances of the Unsound Body
Investigates sound art and its various manifestations through historical, theoretical, polemical and critical analyses of artistic, musical and literary works
Adrian Piper: Race, Gender and Embodiment
Adrian Piper's Mythic Being performances critically engaged wtih popular representations of race, gender, sexuality and class; confronting viewers and forcing them to reconsider assumptions about the social construction of identity. An in-depth analysis of Piper's work.
Enacting Others: Politics of Identity
Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith and Nikki S Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender and class boundaries in works they have concieved and performed. Cherise Smith analyses their engagements with issues of identity through close readings of perfromances by each artist.
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
Publication to coincide with 2013 Exhibition in Houston, US.