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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.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Adrian Piper

Adrian Piper
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Born: September 20, 1948 (age 76)
Bio: Adrian Margaret Smith Piper is an American conceptual artist and philosopher. Her work addresses ostracism, otherness, racial "passing" and racism. She attended the School of Visual Arts, City College of New York, and Harvard University, where she earned her doctorate in 1981.
Known for:
  1. Everything #2.4 (2003)
  2. Everything #2.11a (2003)
  3. Self Portrait as Nice White Lady (1995)
  4. Everything #2.9 (2003)
  5. Art for the Art World Surface Pattern (1976)

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