Funk Lessons : A Collaborative Experiment in Cross-Cultural Transfusion
  • poster
  • offset-printed
  • color
  • 61 x 46 cm.
  • [1] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Funk Lessons : A Collaborative Experiment in Cross-Cultural Transfusion

Adrian Piper

Funk Lessons : A Collaborative Experiment in Cross-Cultural Transfusion

description

Poster designed by Adrian Piper published in conjunction with performance by the artist held March 23, 1984. Poster comprised of detail from William Bootsy Collins's 1982 album cover for the LP "The One Giveth, The Count Taketh Away," featuring a photograph of Collins by Phillip Dixon.

references

"Adrian Piper : A Synthesis of Intuitions" by Adrian Piper, Christophe Cherix, Cornelia Butler, David Platzker, Tessa Ferreyros. New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, 2018, pp. 59 - 61, 230, 364 (checklist no. 177).
San Francisco, CA: New Langton Arts,
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$7,500.00
Condition:  Good / Very Good. Folded in four as issued, mailed copy with mild mailing marks and mailing wear, address sticker on verso. This copy mailed to pioneering curator William Olander, then acting director and curator of modern art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Creasing and rubbing along fold lines with some light handling wear and light edge wear. Two pinholes in top left and right corner of unfolded poster. 2 cm. area of erased pencil marking on verso. Otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 6385]