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Adrian Piper: A Reader

Editor: Cornelia Butler, David Platzker | Reference: P4192 | ISBN: 978-1-63345-033-2 | Type: Publication

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.

Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance

Artist/Author: Uri McMillan | Reference: P2837 | ISBN: 978-1479852475 | Type: Publication

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.

Adrian Piper: Race, Gender and Embodiment

Artist/Author: John P. Bowles | Reference: P2396 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-4920-4 | Type: Publication

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

Artist/Author: Cherise Smith | Reference: P2395 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-4799-6 | Type: Publication

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

Editor: Valerie Cassel Oliver | Reference: P2286 | ISBN: 9781933619385 | Type: Publication

Publication to coincide with 2013 Exhibition in Houston, US.