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Adrian Piper's 1970 performance Catalysis III documented in artcritical post

publication · 2026-04-22

A post on artcritical from June 5, 2018, documented Adrian Piper's performance work Catalysis III from 1970. The performance documentation is held in two collections: the Thomas Erben collection in New York and the Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation in Berlin. The post was filed under an unspecified category and allowed responses through an RSS 2.0 feed. The website artcritical operates on WordPress. The entry provided basic information about the performance's documentation without additional commentary or analysis.

Key facts

  • Adrian Piper created Catalysis III in 1970
  • The work is a performance documented through documentation
  • Documentation is held in the Thomas Erben collection in New York
  • Documentation is also held in the Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation in Berlin
  • The artcritical post was published on June 5, 2018
  • The post was published at 5:40 pm
  • The post was filed under an unspecified category
  • artcritical runs on WordPress

Entities

Artists

  • Adrian Piper

Institutions

  • Thomas Erben
  • Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation
  • artcritical

Locations

  • New York
  • Berlin
  • Germany

Sources