2002

The College again cuts off health and dental benefits and again reinstates them. Piper reads Joe R. Feagin's Racist America. Delivers "Recognition and Responsibility" to Boston University Institute on Race and Social Division. Reads Ben Bagdikian's The Media Monopoly. Produces and mails postal artwork, PRESS BLACK-OUT. Expands "Recognition and Responsibility" into a book manuscript. Piper 's long-term disability benefits appeal denied. Piper produces soundwork, Shiva DANCES, for God's Sake. Black Task Force votes to refuse comment for Vanessa Jones' "Fallen Star" article, published in The Boston Globe. Piper's traveling European retrospective, Adrian Piper Since 1965, opens at the Generali Foundation in Vienna. Lawsuit against Wellesley College dismissed on statute of limitations technicalities. Fourteen prints from The Color Wheel Series, First Adhyasa: Annomayakosha exhibited at Documenta 11. Social Security disability benefits appeal denied. Liver biopsy reveals "significant liver damage, scarring, and chronic inflammation of unknown origin." Succeeds in establishing the Adrian Piper Research Archive (APRA). Piper shoots You/Stop/Watch video for installation. Sues Wellesley College a second time through the Massachusette Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) for retaliation against first lawsuit. Delivers "Documente aus den Staaten" at Museum Ludwig, Köln. Finishes Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volumes I and II (of four). The College reduces salary by 25% due to medical limitations on teaching. AAUP again refuses to investigate.