When you enter into a space, do you think about the unspoken rules regarding how you are supposed to act? Adrian Piper’s Catalysis Series goes against notions of how one should act within a variety of spaces ranging from museums to subways to the street to libraries.  For example in one of her works she played loud recordings of belching noises within a library, a space where one is supposed to be quiet. Another time she wore a shirt that said “WET PAINT” and was covered in sticky white emulsion paint. Viewers were tempted to touch the shirt, but many didn’t. By doing these socially outrageous acts, she makes people question the ways in which society has been structured and polices people to act or not act a certain way. She doesn’t tell people how they should act but rather disrupts the sensible making people question what powers control the ways in which a person is allowed to act in public.