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Adrian Piper

My Calling (Card) #2 (Reactive Guerilla Performance for Bars and Discos)

Maker

Adrian Piper (American, b. 1948)
Angry Art, publisher

Title

My Calling (Card) #2 (Reactive Guerilla Performance for Bars and Discos)

Year

circulated 1986-present

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

5.1 x 8.9 cm (2 x 3 1/2 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Alison W. Chang

Object Number

2015.54

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 14: Shadows

The RISD Museum’s fourteenth issue of Manual shines a light on the shadow, centering the black body as a site of possibility, liberatory self-awareness, radical non-conformity, and joyful defiance. This issue serves as a companion to the exhibition Defying the Shadow.

Manual 14: Shadows opens with an excerpt on the shadow from W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, followed by an introduction by Dr. Anita N. Bateman, who elucidates: “Operating in the shadow comes with a legacy of resistance, both in spiritual and ideological forms.”

Exhibition History

Defying the Shadow
Dec 01, 2020 – Dec 18, 2021

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Tombstone

Adrian Piper (American, b. 1948)
Angry Art, publisher
My Calling (Card) #2 (Reactive Guerilla Performance for Bars and Discos), circulated 1986-present
Offset lithograph on paper
5.1 x 8.9 cm (2 x 3 1/2 inches)
Gift of Alison W. Chang 2015.54

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