Adrian Piper Quotes

My work is an act of communication, and it’s important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it.

In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.

Racism is a visual pathology.

I am black. What are you going to do about it?

On the other hand, I also recognize fully and live by the principle that once the work leaves my studio, I cannot control the effects it has.

One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.