Ilse Aichinger
Jamika Ajalon
Hannah Arendt
Lilly Axster
Simone de Beauvoir
Monika Bernold
Dagmar Fink
Hannah Fröhlich
Tom Holert
Billie Holiday
Belinda Kazeem
Katherine Klinger
Anna Kowalska
Nicola Lauré al-Samarai
Adrian Piper
Yvonne Rainer
Rúbia Salgado
Shirley Tate
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 Adrian Piper (*1948)
Adrian Piper (born 1948 in New York City) is a conceptual artist of the first generation and an analytical philosopher. She had her first international exhibition aged twenty and at the time she was the only Afro-American artist to take part in group shows such as “Concept Art” (1969) in Leverkusen or “Information” (1970) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Alongside her work as an artist and her exhibitions, Piper studied philosophy at the City College of New York and at Harvard University, where she completed her PhD in 1981 with John Rawls. In 1987, she followed in the footsteps of Dr. Joyce Mitchell Cook and became the first Afro-American woman to hold a tenured position as professor of philosophy. Piper has taught at various universities in the United States: Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford. Her philosophical publications focus mainly on meta-ethics, Kant, and the history of ethics.
Since the 1970s, Adrian Piper has extended the vocabulary of conceptual art and minimalism to include the themes of gender, race, and racism, explicitly introducing political issues into art. In recent years, she has worked with pictures and concepts from Vedic philosophy, adding them to the central concepts of her earlier work. Piper’s work is present in major international collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Generali Foundation in Vienna. Since 2005, Adrian Piper has been living and working in Berlin, where she runs the APRA (Adrian Piper Research Archive) Foundation: www.adrianpiper.com
Selected publications
Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I: The Humean Conception, Cambridge 2008
Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II: A Kantian Conception, Cambridge 2008
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OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT, Volume I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, Cambridge, Mass. / London 1996
OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT, Volume II: Selected Writings in Art Criticism 1967-1992, Cambridge, Mass. / London 1996
Adrian Piper seit 1965: Metakunst und Kunstkritik, Sabine Breitwieser (ed.), Vienna 2005
“Passing for White, Passing for Black,” in: OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT, Volume I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, Cambridge, Mass. / London 1996; and in: Sabine Breitwieser (ed.), Adrian Piper seit 1965: Metakunst und Kunstkritik, Vienna 2005
Selected artworks
Catalysis Series, 1970-1972
The Mythic Being Series, 1973-1975
Funk Lessons, 1982-1983
My Calling (Card) #1, dinner/cocktail party reactive guerrilla performance, April 1986-1990
My Calling (Card) #2, disco/bar reactive guerrilla performance, May 1986-1990
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My Calling (Cards) #1 and #2: A Meta-performance I, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, February 1987
My Calling (Cards) #1 and #2: A Meta-performance II, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, N.Y., May 1988
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Vanilla Nightmares, 1986-1990
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Black Box / White Box, 1992
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Sources: Wikipedia, APRA Foundation Berlin, Generali Foundation Vienna |
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