Adrian Piper : a synthesis of intuitions, 1965-2016 / Christophe Cherix, Cornelia Butler, David Platzker ; foreword by Glenn D. Lowry, Ann Philbin, and Okwui Enwezor.
Publisher:
Museum of Modern ArtNew York,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
349 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965-2016, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 31-July 22, 2018, traveling to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 30, 2018-January 6, 2019, and Haus der Kunst, Berlin, April 12-September 22, 2019. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Personal chronology / compiled by Tess Ferreyros. Artist's acknowledgments / Adrian Piper -- Curators' acknowledgments / Christophe Cherix, Connie Butler, David Platzker -- Who calls the tune? In and out of The Humming Room / Christophe Cherix -- Adrian Piper Unities / David Platzker -- Wake up and get down, Adrian Piper's direct address / Cornelia Butler -- The real thing strange / Adrian Piper -- Plates -- Personal chronology / Adrian Piper -- Selected exhibition history, selected bibliography / compiled by Tess Ferreyros.
Summary:
Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of conceptual art since the 1960s. Strongly inflected by her longstanding involvement with philosophy and yoga, her pioneering investigations into the political, social, psychological and spiritual potential of conceptual art have had an incalculable influence on artists working today. Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date, this catalog presents more than 280 artworks that encompass the full range of Piper's mediums: works on paper, video, multimedia installation, performance, painting, sound and photo-texts. Essays by curators and scholars examine her extensive research into altered states of consciousness; the introduction of the Mythic Being - her subversive masculine alter-ego; her media and installation works from after 1980, which reveal and challenge stereotypes of race and gender; and the global conditions that illuminate the significance of her art. Previously unpublished texts by the artist lay out significant events in her personal history and her deeply felt ideas about the relationship between viewer and art object. This publication expands our understanding of the conceptual and post-conceptual art movements and Piper's pivotal position among her peers and for later generations.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.