Adrian Piper Quotes

• One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.

  Adrian Piper

  Artist, Reason, Reactions

  Adrian Piper (1974). “Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object”

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• My work is an act of communication, and it's important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it. On the other hand, I also recognize fully and live by the principle that once the work leaves my studio, I cannot control the effects it has.

  Adrian Piper

  Communication, Hands, Land

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• Racism is a visual pathology.

  Adrian Piper

  Racism, Pathology, Visuals

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• I am black. What are you going to do about it?

  Adrian Piper

  Black

  Adrian Piper, Maurice Berger, Jean Fisher (1999). “Adrian Piper: a retrospective”, Fine Arts Gallery Umbc

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