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d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris. Among the many exhibitions and events he has co�curated are
Manifesta I, Rotterdam (1996), Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna (1997, and touring), the
Berlin Biennale (1998), Utopia Station, Venice Biennale (2003), and the Moscow Biennale (2005).
Volume 1 of his collected interviews was published in 2003.
Helio Oiticica (1937-80) was a Brazilian artist who worked in Rio de Janeiro and New York Like
Lygia Clark, he moved from neo-concretism in the 1950s to participatory works in the late 1960s
involving 'sensOlial' objects and installation structures, parangole capes worn by samba dancers,
and environments which placed gallery visitors in material conditions evoking Latin American
shanty town existence. Retrospectives include Witte de With, Rotterdam (1992, and touring).
Adrian Piper is a New York-based artist and philosopher. After participating in the beginnings of
New York conceptualism in the 1960s, from 1970 she developed a 'catalytic' form of intervention
in public or group situations to involve others in the questioning of perceptions derived from
unchallenged notions of race, gender or class. Retrospectives include the New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York (2000).
Jacques Ranciere is a French philosopher who first came to prominence as a co�author, with Louis
Althusser and others, of Lire Le capital (1965; Reading Capita!. 1979). In the early 1970s he
abandoned Althusser's form of Marxism and began to reflect upon the social and historical
constitution of knowJedges. Since the late 1990s he has investigated the political and its
relationship to aesthetics within western culture. His bool