{"id":111,"date":"2015-10-19T15:07:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=111"},"modified":"2016-01-08T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:40:22","slug":"adrian-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/adrian-piper\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrian Piper\u00a0(born September 20, 1948) is an American conceptual artist and philosopher. Her work addresses ostracism, otherness, racial “passing,” and racism. In the 1970s, Piper began a series of street performances under the collective title Catalysis<\/em>, which included actions such as painting her clothes with white paint and wearing a sign that read “WET PAINT” and going to the Macy’s department store to shop for gloves and sunglasses; stuffing a huge white towel into her mouth and riding the bus, subway and Empire State Building Elevator; and dousing herself in a mixture of vinegar, eggs, milk, and cod liver oil and then spending a week moving around New York’s subway and bookstores. The Catalysis<\/em> performances were meant to be a catalyst that challenged what constitutes the order of the social field, “at the level of dress, sanity and the distinction between public and private acts.”<\/p>\n

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