Keith Piper: Relocating the Remains

Keith Piper: Relocating the Remains Institute of International Visual Arts, 1999, $26.25, ISBN 1-899-84610-7

This intriguing catalogue, accompanied by a CD-ROM, was published on the occasion of Piper's traveling exhibition "Relocating the Remains," which originated at the Institute of International Visual Arts, in the summer of 1997. Like many of his contemporaries Piper explores the gaps in western history books, taking into account the conveniently erased passages on Manifest Destiny, slavery colonialism, while intertwining the personal with the political.

Augmenting the rapturous work of Piper, the book features the extensive essay "Witness at the Crossroads, by Kobena …