MEDI(T)Ations: Adrian Piper’s Videos, etc.

About the Exhibition

MEDI(t)Ations will offer a rare opportunity to view the work of Adrian Piper, a pioneer of conceptual and performance art. Since the late 1960s, Piper has gained a reputation as one of America's premier practitioners in media- and time-based art. She uses her politically charged viewpoint in dissecting difficult matters of racism, racial stereotyping, and xenophobia. Trained as a philosopher, Piper applies her analytical approach to create artworks that attempt to restructure the viewer's perceptions. About the title of the exhibition, Piper has said, "MEDI(t)Ations plays on this dual way in which my work functions: both meditatively-in drawing the listener's or viewer's attention to what is occurring in the immediate present, and interactively-as a mediation between oppositional voices and stances."

MEDI(t)Ations: Adrian Piper’s Videos, Installations, Performances, and Soundworks 1968-1992 is organized by independent curator Dara Meyers-Kingsley and is distributed by the Video Data Bank. Tape restoration courtesy VidiPax™, New York. Piper’s video installation Cornered, a popular work in MCA collection, will join virtually all of Piper’s time-based works in this exhibition.