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What It's Like, What It Is #1

Artist: Adrian Piper, American, born 1948
Medium: Mixed media installation
Dates: 1991
Dimensions: Outside dimensions of the room's footprint.: 245 x 175 in. (622.3 x 444.5 cm)
Collections: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: L2009.1
Credit Line: On loan from The Arthur M. Sackler Collections in honor of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Image: Installation, DIG_E2008_Burning_Down_the_House_14_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009

Catalogue Description: Videotape (2 DVDs), 4 window frames with silkscreened lightboxes set into frames each a different b&w photosilkscreened onto a different lightbox.

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