View: Core archive of works by Adrian Piper
1. Bio and brief description of works on AWARE (Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions): https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/adrian-piper/
(Be sure to click through the full set of images on AWARE, as it is an excellent selection and contains important early work by Piper.
2. Bio and brief description of Piper’s work on the website of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles: https://hammer.ucla.edu/take-it-or-leave-it/artists/adrian-piper
Detailed images of four works by Piper owned by the Hammer Museum: https://hammer.ucla.edu/take-it-or-leave-it/art/this-is-not-the-documentation-of-a-performance
(Please pay particularly close attention to these two works, which are described at length in the Hammer Museum website text: This is Not the Documentation of a Performance (1976) and Cornered (1988).)
3. Adrian Piper Research Archive (Berlin), which is the artist’s official website, is an important resource but VERY difficult to navigate. Please be sure to look at these particular works: Imagine [Trayvon Martin], The Mythic Being, Ur-Mutter #2, and Funk Lessons.
Imagine [Trayvon Martin] (2013): http://www.adrianpiper.com/berlin/art/index.shtml
The Mythic Being series (1970s): http://www.adrianpiper.com/vs/video_tmb.shtml
http://www.adrianpiper.com/berlin/art/the_mythic_being-doing_yoga.shtml
Ur-Mutter #2 (1989): http://www.adrianpiper.com/berlin/art/Ur-Mutter.shtml
Funk Lessons (1983): http://www.adrianpiper.com/vs/video_fl.shtml
4. See also Jillian Steinhauer’s 2018 article in The New Republic, which opens with Piper’s very important 1981 drawing, Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features, and which contains some smart analysis: https://newrepublic.com/article/148298/outside-comfort-zone-adrian-piper
5. See also this very important work, Self-Portrait as a Nice White Lady (1995): https://www.studiomuseum.org/artworks/self-portrait-as-a-nice-white-lady
Read: Coco Fusco, “Racial Time, Racial Marks, Racial Metaphors” (Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, ed. Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, pp. 13-49)
Research: conceptual art & Black conceptualism
List of names to support your research on Black conceptualism:
David Hammons; Charles Gaines; Pope.L; Glenn Ligon; Lorraine O’Grady; Lorna Simpson; Renée Green; Theaster Gates; Leslie Hewitt; Jennie C. Jones
READING AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: ADRIAN PIPER (artist) AND COCO FUSCO (author)
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