PIPER Adrian
(Adrian Margaret Smith Piper, New York, 1948)
Funk Lessons. A Collaborative Experiment in Cross-Cultural Transfusion
Luogo: s.l.
Editore: National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship
Stampatore: N. D.
Anno: 1982
Legatura: N. D.
Dimensioni: 14,5x22,5 cm
Pagine: N. D.
Descrizione: cartoncino d'invito con il testo in oro stampato al solo recto su fondo nero, pubblicato in occasione della performance "Funk Lessons" nel 1982
Bibliografia: N. D.
Prezzo: € 60ORDINA / ORDER
Adrian Piper staged a number of collaborative performance events entitled Funk Lessons (1982–84) in which participants were invited to get down and party together. In the process of learning to discuss, dance, and listen to funk music, the events opened up individual awareness of the complex personal associations of this popular dance form with racial and cultural boundaries. The experience held the possibility of overcoming inhibitions. Piper was living in Menlo Park in 1982–84 on a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University. In the Bay Area, Funk Lessons were hosted at UC Berkeley (November 1983, videotape), the San Francisco Art Institute (February 1984), and New Langton Arts (1975–2009), San Francisco (March 1984). openspace.sfmoma.org
