Patricia,
OK, here's a link that should take you directly to the article:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=4211
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricia [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 9:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Adrian Piper review
>
> Hi Tim:
>
> I am vaguely familiar with Adrian Piper's work, but have never heard of
> Adrian Damant, and can find nothing via a search. I have a devil of a
> time with the online version of Art Newspaper. While I can access the
> front page, nothing else seems to work. Do you have a link to this
> review? Or is it a print version?
>
> At any rate, I did check out Adrian Piper's website, which is (for the
> enlightenment of others):
>
> <http://www.adrianpiper.com/index.html>
>
> and asked her webmaster (or agent or whatever), Robert, and received the
> following reply:
>
>
> Dear Patricia,
> Thanks for your letter. We are aware of the essay, and regarding it
> and your
> letter Adrian says:
>
> "I share your sentiments and reaction completely. I can't believe
> he's
> American (if he is), and moreover can't believe he was born in the
> 20th
> century, but his article works well as comic relief."
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
>
>
> This, of course, would be sharing your reaction, since I sent them your
> words anonymously as a fellow arts listserver on my behalf. At any rate,
> I'm very curious. This seems a strong woman with powerful art and strong
> beliefs. I'd like to read the Damant rant.
>
> Best,
> PK
>
>
> "Porges, Timothy" wrote:
>
> I've been lurking around the Fluxlist for the last year; have
> entered into a
> couple of strings, and never started one before, but i have a
> question for
> the Brit members:
>
> There's a review published in this month's (January 2001) Art
> Newspaper,
> written by one Adrian Danant anc claiming to be a review of three
> exhibits
> of the work of Adrian Piper. He doesn't have much to say about her
> work in
> this review: mostly he restricts himself to contesting her claim to
> an
> african-american racial identity. He says that she's a white woman
> passing
> for black, as a kind of careerist ruse. I've considered the
> possibility that
> this is a kind of tasteless joke, but maybe it's not. Do any of the
> Brit
> members of this group know mister Dannant, and is he certifiable? I
> assume
> that he couldn't possibly be an american and as clueless about
> issues of
> racial history and identity as he appears to be, but maybe that's
> just
> wishful thinking, given the results of the last election.
>
> In any case, could various of you please look at the offending
> article, and
> reply, telling me that either Dannant is a known problem, or that
> I'm being
> oversensitive, here?
>
> thanks,
> Tim Porges
>
