Projects tagged "antiracism"

Funk Lessons
Practitioner:
Adrian Piper
Date:
May 6 1982
Adrian Piper's "Funk Lessons" (1982-84) was a series of performances and collaborative events in which the artist taught white participants about black funk music, its culture, and its history, aiming to deconstruct stereotypical ideas about Black culture.
Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: "Made for Whites by Whites"
Practitioner:
Nick Cave
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Marcel Duchamp, father of the readymade, forced the world to consider mundane things as significant objects, worthy of greater-than-average contemplation — yet his bicycle wheel, shovel, and urinal didn’t come freighted with all that much history.